Archive for category: Type I Saw Today

Type samples from the real world

Pharmaceutical-appliance packaging    (2004.06.15)

Text on Things: Pharmaceutical-appliance packaging

Pile    (2004.06.15)

Text on Things: Pile

A scorecard for every emergency    (2004.06.13)

This kind of emergency planning is too complicated. Nobody’s gonna remember what REACT stands for when the room is filled with toxic smoke. By the time you get to the wall to read this instruction card, if that is even possible under the conditions, either you will have successfuly removed occupants, enclosed area, and activated alarm or you will have not – and it’ll be too late to go back and try again.

Curiously, “code brown” has another meaning in the lore of medical residents.

And speaking of fields    (2004.06.13)

I went for a visual-field test last week to rule out glaucoma. (There is no evidence I have it. We merely have inconclusive evidence I do not.) The office is in the middle of nowhere in the labyrinthine hospital. Since some people heading there will have deficient visual fields, is a homemade, home-corrected sign tacked up on a side wall where you wouldn’t be looking anyway something that makes sense?

Crisper    (2004.06.12)

Text on Things: Crisper

Marker    (2004.06.11)

Text on Things: Marker

Courtesy card    (2004.06.11)

Text on Things: Courtesy card

Food packaging    (2004.06.11)

Text on Things: Food packaging

Book slipcase    (2004.06.09)

Text on things: Book slipcase