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   (2004.12.26)
Letters projecting from brick wall cast shadows under a bare bulb and read ‘Hardinge Makers of Fine Lamps’
   (2004.12.26)

The place to buy your replacement blender jugs. Do, however, reduce your exposure to the neighbourhood as you would have Chernobyl.

Sign attached directly to brick wall reads ‘Butler’s’ in script
Illuminated sign projecting from wall reads ‘Butler’s’ in script plus ‘REPAIR SERVICE Parts Radio/TV Appliances ALL MAKES’
   (2004.12.22)

Preferably with your eyes closed. Have you ever seen so many mistakes in such big type?

Huge letters on café’s concrete storefront read ‘ZOë's’
   (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’
   (2004.11.02)

Talk about orange. You shouldn’t put blue on orange or vice-versa because the wavelengths resolve at different points on the retina, making the colours look like they’re different distances away. Plus the colours can throb. Not a question of colour deficiency, merely of human vision in general. It’s even worse against a bright blue sky, so lucky you that we have just that kind of background here!

Blue-on-orange sign reads ‘Emergency Help Point’
   (2004.10.18)

Though you’re probably shopping for the bottle contents. A delightful handmade British look.

Hand-drawn sign wraps around corner of bottle shop, with white writing on jet-black background and a neon sign reading ‘OPEN’
   (2004.10.17)
Parking-lot signage shows large Futura numeral 2s, upright on tile column in foreground and at an angle projecting from ceiling in background
   (2004.10.16)
Hand-calligraphed signs on brick storefront read ‘R.G. Elsegood & Sons Textile Merchants’

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