Archive for category: Typography

Hyphen-fest, -fu, –vacation homes    (2006.11.25)

Hyphen–hyphen–en dash

Shakespear takes the subway    (2006.11.04)

In which I ride the Toronto subway with Ronald Shakespear talking about nothing but signage! signage! signage!

City Web page on streetsigns    (2006.10.03)

The City of Toronto has a page up on the proposed streetsigns

Mono Lino Typesetting    (2006.10.03)

It turns out I had photographed this disused and threatened industrial monolith on Dupont, albeit not very well.

I am daunted by the prospect of having to write a full history of this place, which I called on the telephone as a teenager. I could hear a lot of industrial sounds in the background as I asked the woman (yes) for as many specimen books as they could possibly airlift to New Brunswick.

(Then later I shot the place with a better camera.)

Confidential to Jeremy Kramer    (2006.09.29)

Notes from an argument I had with Toronto streetsign designer Jeremy Kramer

Notes from Toronto streetsign introduction    (2006.09.27)

Notes from public meeting on proposed new Toronto streetsign designs, Metro Hall, 2006.09.26

Hairdon’t    (2006.09.21)

Why does the remake of Hairspray, set in the 1960s, use giant Arial type on a building at its location shoot in Toronto?

Akzidenz for streetsigns?    (2006.09.20)

They’re using Akzidenz-Grotesk on new Toronto streetsigns?

Choosing a font for its brackets    (2006.09.03)

Poliphilus has a particularly lovely what?