On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

So I subscribe to this mailing list called the Weekly Typographic, organized by the League of Movable Type. This week's instalment led me to an essay on highway signage as put together in the United States (and adapted to some extent in Canada as well):

https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/the-style-guide-for-americas-highways-mutcd/?mc_cid=6948264b0b&mc_eid=b51f2e7655

Yes, friends and acquaintances, there is a style guide for these things, and it runs currently to over 900 pages in hardcopy format.

All those road trips my parents took me on over the years of grade school and high school...they had an effect on my choice of hobbies. License plates, highway signs...this is a part of why I got involved with Spacing Media, of course, as well as developing interests in graphic design along with comic books and science fiction in TV and film. I think I've discussed this before. Many of you reading this remember that. It seems a good idea to cover that ground anew for some of the people just starting to visit regularly.

This is a surprise. But maybe it shouldn't have been a surprise?

https://content.boston.gov/departments/new-urban-mechanics/led-street-name-signs

A thing going on with Typewknd this morning.

https://typewknd.com/presentation/typewalk-in/

I've been running something similar with my Flickr group "Ottawa-Gatineau Street Signage"...

Used to be that the St. John the Evangelist Church on Elgin Street had these two signs out front. They'd regularly change up those signs, often lettered in a matter very familiar to customers of the now-lost Honest Ed's store in Mirvish Village in Toronto.

A couple of people recently faved this one, originally taken and uploaded back in February 2011. I still don't know what the French one said, but the English one seems pretty blessedly clear. More so nowadays, nine years later.

Some Elgin Street retailers are reselling the construction signage that was up during last year's renovation work carried out on Elgin. This was on offer at the Gifted Type, a hybrid newsstand/bookstore/art supply/souvenir shop.

It was going to happen today, but for the rain.

I don't expect to be there at the protest - day-job obligations! - but I do expect local traffic to be affected, including the traffic towards the Sheraton Ottawa for Can-Con 2019's first day.

From Parliament Hill: a pro-science march starting up there...

This video report applies to specific cross-walks in Toronto, care of CBC News in that city. Not sure how signals designed to look similar here in Ottawa are rigged.

...and you have to be careful in the course of making these things!( Photograph from my Flickr account after the cut... )