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Archive for category: Scripts

Script faces in situ

   (2005.08.20)

The 2005 Matching Tartan and Paisley Award for typographic miscegenation goes to Europa Fine Pastries & Bakery for the unforeseeable achievement of uniting Cooper Black with a “klassy” script face.

Sign reads EUROPA in Cooper Black Italic and Fine Pastries & Bakery in Commercial Script
   (2005.08.01)

The old-style (but not quite oldest-possible-style) Toronto street signs. Since Hollywood stars hang out there once a year (suburban Guidos the rest of the time), Village of Yorkville gets to use Le Griffe.

Street signs at the corner of Bay St. and Yorkville Av. have top banners reading Village of Yorkville in Le Griffe script

Because tacky people think script fonts are klassy.

   (2005.06.28)

I don’t know if I’m supposed to be sad that old man Pollack’s fishing-supply store went under. I did buy a pair of skates with neon-green runners there, and was well taken care of.

Terrazzo step reads Pollack in script
   (2005.01.06)

Here’s what happens when you come along years later and try to match an original sign using whatever fonts are installed on your pirated Win98 box.

I think not.

Sign on building reads ‘Beach Corner’ in mid-century script; sign hanging from building reads ‘Flowers’ in scrunched Zapf Chancery
   (2004.12.21)

Magical when well-chosen.

Sign reads Brant House in blue, with twin mirror-image script Bs intertwined in blue on a chocolate-brown background
   (2004.12.21)
Hand-lettered sign in white and yellow upper case and script type reads ‘PARKING ONLY FOR GENCO Customers’ and ‘OTHERS WILL BE TAGGED’
   (2004.11.03)

Twice in two weeks, no less. You usually find tasteful swash capitals maybe twice a decade. I think the HOPESFALL logotype could stand some better optical spacing, but it’s an unexpectedly successful use of all-(swash-)caps.

Photo of top of real-estate poster (‘8 Peveril Hill North”) shows fancy serifs on capital letters. Bottom shows an amorphous red illustration, a few words, and ‘HOPESFALL’ in capitals with fancy serifs and descenders on the ES and LL
   (2004.10.16)
Hand-calligraphed signs on brick storefront read ‘R.G. Elsegood & Sons Textile Merchants’
   (2004.09.05)
Yellow and blue ellipses surround the word ‘Ellipse’ written in blue script

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