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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

At Large Font of the Day

Posted by Dan Savage on Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:00 AM

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I can't even make out the first word...

Porn hours? Pass hours? Huh?

Posted by Urgutha Forka on September 30, 2009 at 8:24 AM

Park Hours
Sunrise to Sunset

Posted by Banna

on September 30, 2009 at 8:30 AM

Recession Extra Black

Posted by DOUG.

on September 30, 2009 at 8:32 AM

Somebody was obviously dipping into the good drugs.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on September 30, 2009 at 8:46 AM

Oh, I thought it said Paramours.

Posted by care bear on September 30, 2009 at 9:18 AM

@2
Thanks!

Posted by Urgutha Forka on September 30, 2009 at 9:20 AM

@5 - I'm so glad I'm not the only one!

Posted by Sheryl on September 30, 2009 at 9:24 AM

Dan! Dan! Don't go in! She's a witch and she plans to eat you!

Posted by saxfanatic on September 30, 2009 at 9:25 AM

PA2E MOUBS SUNRISE to SUNSEW

I think it has to be actually legible for it to count as a font. Not sure on that one, though.

Posted by Uriel-238 on September 30, 2009 at 10:10 AM

Everything should be in Comic Sans and bright blue.

Posted by very bad homo on September 30, 2009 at 11:10 AM

I think what we have here is an overzealous park employee running a too-full paint roller over a perfectly good sign.

Posted by Fnarf

on September 30, 2009 at 11:28 AM

grep -i '^p[ao]r[bdeghkmnoqsuwxz]$' /usr/share/dict/words
park
pare
pars
pore
pork
porn
<nerdly giggle>

Posted by theophrastus on September 30, 2009 at 11:51 AM

it's peeling paint/vinyl... :)

Posted by Beetlecat on September 30, 2009 at 2:32 PM

I really like that. There's something pleasant about these letters. If it had been printed white on brown instead of the opposite, the erosion would cause the letters' edges to peel up and become skeletons, but now they spread out and become thick and juicy, as the background (or what we perceive to be the background) peels up.

Eventually all the brown will fall off and the whole sign will be letters. This process strikes me as a more acceptable death for the sign. More than the letters falling off individually, which is how most signs die.

Posted by Hepworth