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Archive for category: Type I Saw Today

Type samples from the real world

   (2006.08.23)
White sign projecting from building reads Butler’s in script and REPAIR SERVICE Parts Radio/TV Appliances ALL MAKES in Helvetica
   (2006.08.21)
Sign over café is written in yellow type on a blue background, with a line of Amharic and a line of script capitals reading RENDEZ-VOUS BAR & CAFE
   (2006.08.17)
Sign projecting from wall has red, white, and blue X-shaped stripes and BARBER SHOP in white sansserif on a blue background
   (2006.08.16)

I think this is a poorly-rendered variation of this groovy display-type form.

Orange sign reads National CONVENIENCE in curvy white letters whose thick strokes contrast severely with thin strokes
   (2006.08.11)

I was gonna say it’s reminiscent of such unpleasant typefaces as Weidemann, but I checked and that isn’t the unpleasant typeface it’s reminiscent of.

Weathered sign on brick wall above doorway reads LAW OFFICE Peters & Kestelman 245 Coxwell Ave.

Additionally, a preposition is not to be used to end a sentence with.

   (2006.08.10)

Does anyone remember Epson dot-matrix printers and the cursive typefaces they could hack together? Is it even possible to make a printout of such a thing anymore?

Sign on brick building reads LUCKY DRIVING SCHOOL in script typeface with mismatched stroke thicknesses and angles
   (2006.08.05)

Your source for “sand & grave” in the 905.

Orange pylon labelled JORDAN sits in front of brown dumpster with the legend flamer Jack’s SAND & GRAVE 905-642-5380

But don’t get any ideas beyond that.

   (2006.08.02)

The R and the C don’t match.

Sign on building reads DENTURE [blanked-out space] CLINIC 249 CHRISTIE ST. 588-3355 in numerous grotesk fonts
   (2006.08.01)
Round sign with thick black metal base reads NO PARKING BETWEEN SIGNS, with PARKING scooped into an arc in the middle

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