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Type samples from the real world

   (2004.09.07)

You’ve really got to love Friz Quadrata and Avant Garde Gothic to mo(u)ld them into polypropylene. It’ll still be around when the sun goes nova.

Green plastic implement shows a triangular logo, ‘AMES’ in Friz Quadrata, and ‘ReelEasy’ in Avant Garde Gothic Bold and Bold Oblique
   (2004.09.07)

What can you safely do with this thing?

Close-up of four warning labels in English and French (ten in enlarged photo)
   (2004.09.05)

Time to put this one out to pasture, or at least hook it up with some Toys “Я” Us carts in a retirement home.

Side of dirty blue coupe shows broken-up Dart Swinger insignia
   (2004.09.05)
Yellow and blue ellipses surround the word ‘Ellipse’ written in blue script
   (2004.09.05)

I have so many photos of bronneresque service and delivery vans that I can’t keep track of them anymore.

White delivery van reads ‘Emergency Response Drain Service... for All Drain Problems’ in garish yellow, blue, and red type
   (2004.09.05)

Kill the twin Helvetica stepchildren and give us back the sign with the script!

Two signs reading ‘Canadian Drycleaners’ in Helvetica adorn a building. At top, an old, faded, decrepit sign says the same thing, with ‘Canadian’ written in script
   (2004.08.31)

Text on Things: Graphical user interface

   (2004.08.31)

Text on Things: Browser window

   (2004.08.30)

Text on Things: Receipt

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