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Archive for category: Type I Saw Today

Type samples from the real world

   (2005.08.27)

Would this not have been better in Akzidenz?

Windows and yellow wall tiles lead down to two angled walls in red tile labeled 261 in Helvetica

(What wouldn’t be?)

   (2005.08.24)

I still regret missing most of the plushies episode of CSI (complete with description!).

Cartoon illustration shows red creature in wintertime with three tiny figures hanging from the threads of its mittens. Type reads: Magic Pony presents Plushtastrophe Dec 2nd to Jan 2nd
   (2005.08.24)

I don’t know how they could possibly have made this tackier.

Green signs tacked up on door transom and concrete lintel read food Basic$, Welcome to Roy's, Best Prices Everyday!!!

The Clearface Gothic was a nice touch.

   (2005.08.24)

From what I can tell, this sign uses upright and cursive type in two scripts.

Yellow sign reads Chinese Art PRINTING Co. in script and roman, with Chinese type and scrip at left
   (2005.08.20)

The 2005 Matching Tartan and Paisley Award for typographic miscegenation goes to Europa Fine Pastries & Bakery for the unforeseeable achievement of uniting Cooper Black with a “klassy” script face.

Sign reads EUROPA in Cooper Black Italic and Fine Pastries & Bakery in Commercial Script
   (2005.08.20)

Thank Christ nobody’s torn this one down. Yet.

Blue sign over restaurant has widely-spaced block letters reading MOTORAMA
   (2005.08.07)

The community of expatriate Germans who turn blackletter cursive and italicize a face that already sits at an angle (the only part I don’t like!).

Blue truck shows a smoked-meat sandwich on a kaiser and reads Piller in flowing handwriting-like blackletter type. ‘Quality European Taste Since 1957’ is written along the bottom in sloped Eras type’
   (2005.08.03)

The word is a torture test for lispers and assibilators.

Free-standing flat column with mortar-board top reads ASQUITH in letters cut from the wood
   (2005.08.03)

An ignominious use of Friz Quadrata.

Stencilled letters on the side of a dumpster read NORTHWAY in Friz Quadrata

Then again, he’s a tough old South American runaway Nazi bastard and can stand a bit of stencilling.

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