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Type samples from the real world

   (2006.07.30)
Glittering name badge on red car reads TOWN & COUNTRY in yellow on woodgrain
   (2006.07.28)

I see these trucks several times a week but can never manage to shoot them. Note the morally-correct Palatino gussied up with outline (perhaps more like inline or contour, two categories ethnically cleansed by PostScript overregularization).

Mirror-like metal truck body is labelled SYSCO in Palatino Bold
   (2006.07.25)
Red shield on yellow truck door reads Solid Wood Bed & Table in ill-drawn Bookman Swash Italic
   (2006.07.24)
Distressed letters on side of truck resemble pencilled-in architectural handlettering and say Offset Print & Litho
   (2006.07.21)
Badge on stainless-steel cooler reads United Cooler Niagara (with U C N in blue hexagons)
   (2006.07.20)
Photo shows reflection of me (in purple-and-black hat) photographing a pegboard building directory with mismatched letters: ESSENCE THERAPEUTICS FOR LIVING 206
   (2006.07.19)
Four Hershey Dessert Fondue/Fondue pour Dessert packages use lavish script type and show phtoos of fruits dipped in chocolate

(Can you spot the error in the French?)

   (2006.07.12)
Flat black doorway, labelled 477a in Eurostile, sits nestled in quarter-cylinder of concrete alongside a brick wall
   (2006.07.11)

I enjoy the onomatopoeia of words beginning cris- or cres- followed by a voiceless stop, like Crisco (a well-chosen name for a tub of fat) or crest. They all sound so fresh and crisp, like scissors cutting construction paper.

Red truck is emblazoned Kriska in unicase Gill Sans (with an arrow forming the right side of the K)

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