Saturday, January 16, 2010

day 13:

I found this building with what I call "forgotten type". You can't really ready what it says. You can barely make out the word "Independent". I find it interesting that type can leave a lasting impression even when it is forgotten about. When it was new, this typeface seems to have been bold san serif and probably would have been very easy to read form a distance. Now that the typeface is half gone, it is hard to tell whether it was painted on or was some sort of raised type . But now it is boring. It has lost it's meaning and seems dead. It looks like lettering from an old tombstone

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