Erik Spiekermann, the renowned typographer, graphic designer, and founder of MetaDesign, calls people like me “typomaniacs” (as he explains in this rather dainty show made by the BBC in the 1980s).
You don’t need to be a typographer or type designer to be a typomaniac (although I certainly wish I was); instead, an unbridled fixation on all manner of type ‘out there’ in the world provides immediate entry into the club. Who else but a typomaniac would have spotted this anomaly (above) on a road sign heading West out of Montreal? (Answer below.)
A: The word ‘Laval’ ends with an uppercase ‘L’. Good gracious.
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I must have driven by that sign thousands of times and I’ve never noticed that at all…
Don’t tell my wife, but I spotted that almost immediately (it sticks out like a sore thumb). She thinks I spend too much time looking at type already…
because i have lived in germany, mother of the goddess DIN schrift, i absolutely know what u mean.
Having DIN all around there, on road signs etc, was such a great experience.
It feels weird to say so, but as u’r entry is about typomaniacs, i feel i can express myself freely about it, without feeling that i am crazy.
nice blog by the way!
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