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Daily Archives: February 28th, 2008

The New York Subway it ain’t…

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Translink’s version of the “don’t litter” sign:
“It’s your transit system, help keep it tidy.”
That comma hurts my soul.
The Translink sign-writers could stand to learn a thing or two from their counterparts in New York… 

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Even Microsoft is okay when they’re disagreeably facetious

Thursday, February 28, 2008

I don’t like Microsoft.
But I am rather fond of their “Disagreeably Facetious Type Glossary.”
I particularly like this bit:
BOWLS are strokes that enclose a white space, like those that make the o and O. The two parts in the g are also bowls. Where a curve partially encloses a space it is also sometimes called a [...]

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