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   (2004.11.05)
Close-ups of rear ends of off-green Lexus and yellow-green Ford, both with yellow-green license plates
   (2004.11.03)

Twice in two weeks, no less. You usually find tasteful swash capitals maybe twice a decade. I think the HOPESFALL logotype could stand some better optical spacing, but it’s an unexpectedly successful use of all-(swash-)caps.

Photo of top of real-estate poster (‘8 Peveril Hill North”) shows fancy serifs on capital letters. Bottom shows an amorphous red illustration, a few words, and ‘HOPESFALL’ in capitals with fancy serifs and descenders on the ES and LL
   (2004.11.02)

Talk about orange. You shouldn’t put blue on orange or vice-versa because the wavelengths resolve at different points on the retina, making the colours look like they’re different distances away. Plus the colours can throb. Not a question of colour deficiency, merely of human vision in general. It’s even worse against a bright blue sky, so lucky you that we have just that kind of background here!

Blue-on-orange sign reads ‘Emergency Help Point’
   (2004.11.02)
Raised Helvetica Condensed letters on building read ‘26’ in the afternoon sun

(Cf. crumbly, lapidary Helvetica.)

   (2004.11.02)

Located, funnily enough, on “the” Broadway, a terrifying thoroughfare overrun by eight lanes of 60 km/h traffic, all running on the wrong side of the road and replete with buses in the curb lanes. I’ve never gotten so much dust in my eyes in my life.

Nighttime view shows four-storey, ornate, well-lighted building with a projecting clock tower
   (2004.11.01)

I couldn’t believe it either: A hastily-made product sign, meant to stand in until a sign that conforms to corporate livery (using Futura) could be printed, typeset in… Benguiat Gothic.

Side-by-signs on store shelves, one plain in Benguiat Gothic, the other in Futura with coloured nameplate

(It’s pronounced “Ben·gat,” for your beginners. He’d probably look at his own font and blurt “What, that piece of shit?”)

   (2004.10.28)

B-links, October 28

   (2004.10.26)

Have nothing, nothing at all, in the fridge save for a case o’ Edensoy and two kinds of ethnic dips.

Top shelf of refrigerator holds case of Edensoy, baba gannouj, hummus
   (2004.10.25)

Maple trees in Toronto are enduring a fungal outbreak (PDF) that stains their leaves black, irrespective of original colour.

Green-, yellow-, and burgundy-coloured fallen leaves on grass show large black spots

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