• sideways lowercase o's
  • this looks more like an r with a weird line attached to it.
  • skinny lowercase l
  • This definitely doesn't match.
  • What happened here?
    Check the full size version to see what I'm talking about.

type atrocity

Josh mentioned this to me a while ago, and wow, he was totally right - what the fuck happened here, huh?
Did I miss anything?

For reference, two different variations of this sticker, from older trains:
Exhibit A
Exhibit B
Exhibit C

Comments and faves

  1. h_star (40 months ago | reply)

    Well, I'm not defending this crap job... but if they are vinyl letters, cut on a plotter, and the material had any outside friction (like wrinkles, or getting caught on the machine, etc.) or a loose blade, then the letters would come out inconsistent. The people producing it may have ruined some of the letters when "weeding" it out of the material (or perhaps somebody picked the letters off the original sign), and did a bad job matching the type with those replacements.

  2. noktulo (40 months ago | reply)

    No, every one of these stickers I've ever seen has the weird typography.

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    joeclark added this photo to his favorites. (40 months ago)

  4. Bruno Veloso (40 months ago | reply)

    It's funky. Makes me feel like leaning on the door in order to reach the 5th dimension.

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  5. dvness (39 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Found Typography, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  6. jake vance (38 months ago | reply)

    Stuff like this REALLY gets under my skin. I'm lucky Danielle's such a big grammar/typography nerd. She understands when I refuse to shop somewhere that mixes bolds and italics, or uses quotation marks where god never intended.

    This, though, is just bad on a totally more bizarre level. It's like it took a lot of *effort* to be that wrong.

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