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Type samples from the real world

   (2005.07.18)

I don’t get this at all. The black type seems OK, I guess (and appears to show the Nastaliq writing style, with the shifting and angled baselines).

Two lines or Urdu are followed by a phone number, all in black type with blue outlines

So why’d they have to go and outline everything in blue ballpoint?

   (2005.07.17)
Sign above wood-paneled front of restaurant reads Indochine in Mrs Eaves, complete with ch ligature
   (2005.07.17)

Where they rebuild only the shoes that, say, Krusty the Clown or Sideshow Bob might wear.

Sign over store reads Expert Repairs Waiting Service in script incised into granite
   (2005.07.17)

Is this like Walker, where the snap-on serifs can be attached even to the letter O?

Poster has headline SUMMER AT TORONTO EATON CENTRE and shows an Audi key fob reading SKRTCH’NWÏN
   (2005.07.15)

On a billboard that drivers are expected to read in an instant, yes, Audi typesets the phrase “going backward” backwards.

Audi billboard has slogan ‘The all-new A3. Greater than going backward’ with the last two words flipped to read backwards

Good thing these fuckers got airbags out the arse, because after that kind of distraction, you may need ’em.

   (2005.07.15)

I’m not sure this dumpy haunted house in Parkdale is any kind of haven. Love the sign, though.

Handmade sign on porch of house reads Candy Haven in blackletter and TOURISTS in sansserif
   (2005.07.15)

Stainless-steel script fonts…

Stainless-steel letters read Norman Rogul in script, with large swash capitals and short lower-case letters

…they’re so fuckin’ suave.

   (2005.07.15)

Animé characters eat tikka? You’d think that would be way too gaijin for them.

Cubic sign on post reads IRJ OUR ORIGINA HORE TIKKA HOUSE in broken letters on one side. On another, a cartoon boy with white hair and huge eyes holds a flag reading hank Yo For Yo po ’
   (2005.07.15)

Half the time Cletus and Brandine are typesetting them, the other half Eric Gill is. (Who’s dirtier?)

‘Paper Yard Waste Bag Sacs en papier pour résidus verts’ is typeset in Perpetua Italic, with other text in Avant Garde Gothic Condensed

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