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Type samples from the real world

   (2008.09.14)
Script on neon sign reads ick
Close-up of sign reads UCK in letters filled in like a circuit board
   (2008.08.15)
K on slat of back of Muskoka chair
   (2008.07.19)
Late-dusk sunshine illuminates an orange New Canadians Lumber Home Building Centre sign, most of it typeset in Lubalin Graph
   (2008.07.02)
Backside of fairground attraction shows solid cutout letters MARDI GRA propped up at the top
   (2008.06.16)

They go to the trouble of using blackletter (it’s probably textura) on a textile label.

Clothing label sits upside down in a hand and says 100% and Lambswool and Laine d’agneau in blackletter
   (2008.06.05)
Under grey skies, the inside of a smoked-glass bus shelter shows Glen Manor Dr in backwards Helvetica

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   (2008.05.13)

This is ostensibly the British style of 3, a proposition I do not entirely buy.

3 inscribed in steel plate installed on pavement
   (2008.04.20)
Oily-looking CN locomotive carries the number 4135 in Helvetica
   (2008.03.11)
Part of handwritten sign reads, with figures in orange, 1 save 15% 2 save 20% 3 save 25%

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