"With catlike tread..." started to float through my head. Perhaps in relation to all the recent pirate vs ethics threads? Nice work Chris.

We are at Dezcom One! Call out the type police!!!!

Someone has stolen facets of the appearance of the Typophile site

Is anyone else having malfunctions?

Michael

What a cop-out, Chris.

Just don't let Uli see that copyright symbol!

I once had the honor, if that's the right word, to serve as the treasurer of the Society of Printers in Boston. Apart from maintaining the inventory of the bar, the treasurer's principal duty was to distribute a printed report of the Society's finances after dinner at the Annual Meeting.
When dinner was done, the members launched into the traditional critique of the Treasurer's Report. Mind you, no one paid a bit of attention to what it said about money. But woe to the treasurer whose column heads weren't centered properly, or whose kerning was imperfect. It was truly a case of Type Police Brutality.

Why do I feel a type fireman, type chef, type doctor coming on? :)

Actually, I think what we need is a type dezcom singing opera!

Then we could all get de-loused ... and be done with it.

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first crime call

Actually, "The TypePolice" is also written in HTML.

I think it’s time for serious internal investigation! :-P

@Goran,
"I didnt want to be that person who points out errors in other peoples work, so I gave it up"

I don't blame you. It is like being a professional bitcher. I was looking at this as a humorous way to take a gentle poke without being taken too seriously.

ChrisL

@Mike,

Typecrime
Typecrime
Nineteen eighty four...

ChrisL

Oy Vey! You should only do such a thing, just a small mention of a mere inconvenience and you call kvetching already! :-)

ChrisL

Typecrime
Typecrime
Nineteen eighty four...

So... it's off to the Ministry of Type with you, mate!

"The Ministry of Type was the really frightening one. There were no windows in it at all. Winston had never been inside the Ministry of Type, nor within half a kilometer of it. It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests. Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons."

(This is Orwell's description of the Ministry of Love, but I've substituted a couple of words!)

You betcha, Bruce, but not Bobby Slimbach :-)

ChrisL

Yes, you have to put a poorly written sign on your door :-)

ChrisL

Guerrizmo+Design

Nope... "ears" in Spanish is "orejas".

Polizia in Italian.

I hope you guys and gals like my version. I was inspired by ChrisL type cop.
This is what the type police south of the border looks like.
Creative people all over Latin America
take their type serious just as much as North American's do.

Spanish+Italian=Romantic Language

Guerrizmo+Design

Where is the Typolice when you need it?
http://www.weatherby.info/shazam/generalrubbish/PirateDog.jpg

Hi Typophiles,

My blog is actually called Type Police!
Its funny to see this compositions, I have been working on a logo/masthead for my blog but it is nothing like this.

Anyway this is awesome, good idea!

Well, now you can check the Type Police blog, its kind of a new blog, so there's not much in there. Thinking about showing all those crimes to typography that go unnoticed or unpunished...
http://typepolice.wordpress.com

Alessandro, that is funny! What is the story behind it?

ChrisL

Chris,
Well, I'm actually taking the Advanced Typography Certificate at the Langara College in Vancouver, BC. This program has been put together by Dr. Shelley Gruendler of Typecamp http://www.typecamp.org/
So all the exercises are made by me...
Cheers,

@Juan, Shelley is a very fine typographer. I am sure you learned a great deal.

ChrisL

http://www.ascendercorp.com/april/2006/fontpolice.htm