I love it! I’m a sucker for cast metal roman capitals on old buildings, but the only people who give a damn, or even notice, are font nerds. Doing something quirky like this is fun and interesting, and I’m sure that the designer who specified Stop had a sense of humor and knew that these letters will get swapped out at the next renovation anyway.
I know next to nothing about typography but a whole ess-load about architecture. Archaica is correct that building is definitely from the teen's or maybe the 20's given its transitional, modernizing beaux-artsiness.
30 Jul 2009 — 12:02pm
Stop! And smell the, uh, actors. :->
30 Jul 2009 — 12:31pm
It appears like something straight out of a Blade Runner set! :-)
30 Jul 2009 — 12:41pm
I love it! I’m a sucker for cast metal roman capitals on old buildings, but the only people who give a damn, or even notice, are font nerds. Doing something quirky like this is fun and interesting, and I’m sure that the designer who specified Stop had a sense of humor and knew that these letters will get swapped out at the next renovation anyway.
30 Jul 2009 — 1:23pm
Stop? I think you mean "Frieze!"
30 Jul 2009 — 2:28pm
Reminds me of the warm, homey-feeling brand identity of the digital photo frame company that I work for.
30 Jul 2009 — 2:56pm
I think that's where Cyberdyne created the Terminator.
30 Jul 2009 — 3:45pm
My guess: If you want to provide credible movie back drops, you have to stay ahead of the crowd… hence this wonderfull signage.
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Bert Vanderveen BNO
31 Jul 2009 — 2:37am
As if boingboing itself hasn't made a "strange font choice."
3 Aug 2009 — 4:29am
I’m a sucker for cast metal roman capitals on old buildings
Inversion of ideas: The building is out of place, the font is fitting. How old is the building?
3 Aug 2009 — 7:19am
That's "Stop", designed by Aldo Novarese in 1970. I see Mark Simonson IDs it in the thread. It always looks distinctive, but never good :)
Probably the building is from the 70s.
3 Aug 2009 — 9:44am
Probably the building is from the 70s.
So actually the type and the building are not chronologically remote.
I'm all for it!
3 Aug 2009 — 10:41am
Probably the building is from the 70s.
The building looks like old Beaux-Arts-derivative institutional architecture, probably post-Victorian. I'd guess maybe 1910 or 1920?
3 Aug 2009 — 2:49pm
I should have said that I'm guessing the letters were put in in the 70s or early 80s. The building, as archaica says, is probably much earlier.
3 Aug 2009 — 7:28pm
My first impression: Planet of the Apes. ;-)
3 Aug 2009 — 10:34pm
Yes, Stop by Aldo Novarese....it immediately made me think of the Micro Center logo:
5 Aug 2009 — 5:59pm
I know next to nothing about typography but a whole ess-load about architecture. Archaica is correct that building is definitely from the teen's or maybe the 20's given its transitional, modernizing beaux-artsiness.