From: André Szabolcs Szelp (a.sz.szelp@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Dec 11 2009 - 09:57:32 CST
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Kenneth Whistler <kenw@sybase.com> wrote:
> Szabolcs said:
>
> > You can see that with the signage of Tiffany's in Vienna for example as
> > well. They got all the illuminated letter N-s wrong! Well, I mean of
> course
> > the guys building the signage. Those letters are mistaken more
> "sneakily"...
> > they are not flipped, but rotated 180°, which makes them awkward to the
> > typographically trained eye, but still N-shaped,...
>
> Visual aid, for those who prefer pictures to descriptions:
>
Especially when the sentence turned out so awkward.
>
> http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/80JIB3jGLB2zg_-QXbOY5w
>
> --Ken
>
>
Indeed, I should have thought that such things make their way to the web.
Graphic designers have a habit of carrying digital cameras around all the
time... (Though that particular one seems to be a generic touristic
picture). User generated content unlocks so many possibilities!
/Szabolcs
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