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Type samples from the real world

   (2006.09.23)

Throughout the east end, there are several such entranceway floors reading TAMBLYN in mosaic tile.

   (2006.09.22)

A difficult-to-photograph sign. May have to wait till the vanishingly brief period of no leaves on trees but adequate light and no snow.

Black sign over red door on brick building reads China Lily LEE’S FOOD PRODUCTS LTD.
   (2006.09.21)

To use the vulgate. Would this not be textura ice cream?

Sign reads Neilson’s in blackletter type and Famous ice cream in Futura

(Is blackletter ice cream like liquorice ice cream?)

   (2006.09.14)

But your typical newspaperman wouldn’t be caught dead on something as girly as a scooter.

Silve and red scooters have rear ends covered in identical ‘Globe and Mail’ wallpaper
   (2006.08.31)

God, I hate trendy “pop-culture aficionados” who think the word refers to aliens.

Graffiti on wall reads [rotated schwa]-RAMZ

John Hudson has a paper (PDF) on designing his font Sylfaen in which he lists what he thinks is the complete Cyrillic character set. Ever seen a capital schwa with dieresis?

Alphabet showing of 96 Cyrillic letters

Me neither. By the way, that’s 96 letters. Care for a game of Scrabble?

(Meanwhile, teddybearish Tom Phinney did a lousy job explaining which Cyrillic characters Adobe will include in future fonts, going so far as to type their raw character codes, not the characters, into his blog entry.)

   (2006.08.28)

The green/white/red of the Italian flag, the word “caffé” written thus, and the use of Irish uncial type – all on the same sign.

Sign reads Caffé Latte Gelateria & Spuntini Italian Bar

The only thing missing is German “gothic” type, or maybe Comic Sans.

   (2006.08.25)

I am methodically reading every remotely plausible book on graphic design and typography that can be borrowed from the Toronto Public Library, the world’s largest such system, with 99 branches. (If you recently went looking for the only circulating copies of Eye, I’m the one who snagged them.) I am, further, ordering everything under the sun from other libraries via interlibrary loan, which fails about four-fifths of the time but is still worth a go.

Recently, I read the three classic treatises on words/lettering in/on/& buildings/architecture (for their titles are merely permutations of those words and you could generate your own): (more…)

   (2006.08.25)
Metal script letters on a brick wall read Butler’s
   (2006.08.24)
Hand-painted sign: It’s TUNE-UP TIME FOR VACUUM CLEANERS & LAWN MOWERS

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