[Photograph by Michael Leddy.]
A piece of local signage, with what must be two British spellings. Yipes.
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The typography is amateurish as well. The ff should be combined into a ligature.
ReplyDeleteThat’d be an unbeatable combination of careful and careless. : )
ReplyDeleteUgh. The combined pretension of using 'Centre' and then completely bollocksing professional. Exactly what you said, I guess.
ReplyDeleteWell, it's not quite as good as "Pubic Library," but it's definitely one of the great signs... In Pennsylvania, near the entrance to Presque Isle State Park, there is a business sign for a treatment center offering "Cancerology." It's not in the same class-- I *guess* it's not misspelled-- but still....
ReplyDeleteIt's not just the lack of an ff ligature... the spacing overall is atrocious. My eyes! My eyes!
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