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Archive for category: Type I Saw Today

Type samples from the real world

   (2007.04.28)
Script type on window before glowing pink display case reads My
   (2007.04.21)
Vehicle covered with map of downtown Toronto, broken up by a channel for a sliding door and a top corner of fender and wheel
   (2007.04.17)
50A in metal letters sits above a door with blue, grey, purple, yellow, red, and black rectangles in a Mondrianesque pattern
   (2007.04.07)

At various locations in the east end, and somehow still in business.

Cartouche-shaped sign with background of brown landscape with bluish seas has the word Ring in a blue circle, with a diamond in a separate unit on the right

I guess guys are willing to cross the river to buy the last vinyl turntables still in manufacture.

   (2007.04.05)
Half-broken sign reads MER in letters inscribed in slate
   (2007.03.27)

Rather extravagant orange Didot (or didot, generically) italics with crapola Helvetica and ITC Bookman. And handlettering.

Sign reads anita’s hair styling in orange italics, with other signs tacked above and extending from the end

Bit of a Cabbagetown mishmash that could stand in for a Leslieville mishmash.

   (2007.03.25)
Vitrine has Fresh DONUTS & SANDWICHES and other hand-lettering, with three LEASE signs tacked up behind the glass
   (2007.03.22)
Red Coca-Cola truck passes silver tanker labelled Dingwall Transport in slanted Arnold Böcklin type
   (2007.03.20)
Innards of rusted gas pump show old mechanical ACHAT TOTAL and LITRES displays

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