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February 2, 2012

No solicitors, etc. Photographed in Newark, California, in September 2000. We already know it’s bad to artificially expand type (‘All trucks prohibited’) but why expand a condensed typeface (‘From using this entrance’)? If you expand a condensed typeface, you’d wind up at the normal width, so wouldn’t it just make sense to use the normal one to begin with? This is a lesson in how to make Helvetica look ugly.

No solicitors, etc. Photographed in Newark, California, in September 2000. We already know it’s bad to artificially expand type (‘All trucks prohibited’) but why expand a condensed typeface (‘From using this entrance’)? If you expand a condensed typeface, you’d wind up at the normal width, so wouldn’t it just make sense to use the normal one to begin with? This is a lesson in how to make Helvetica look ugly.

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