Turn Me

One of the hazards of having an Instagram account as well as a blog is that if I post a picture on Instagram, sometimes I forget to post it on the blog!

Such is the case with a picture I took — in April! — of a sign in the window of the beloved Verameat, on East 9th Street:

Taken in April.

On Instagram, this was called "After the robbery". (Verameat was robbed! Terrible.)

I passed by there again, oh, about twenty days ago, and was intrigued by this sign:

Intriguing sign.

Now you know how to get inside Verameat!

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Verameat, One Last Time

I am psyched! Take a look at this photo:

I wrote that this sign had bad kerning, and Vera fixed it!

I'm not psyched because I actually have readers, I'm psyched because someone cares enough about kerning to fix it when it's off! (Typesetting is fast becoming a lost art.)

Let me go one step further to say that this is a good job. Here is a comparison of the two signs:

I like how the letters fill the space now. Plus, they're heavier. And those bolts (or whatever they were to the bottom/left of the V) are now hidden.

(Cue applause.)

VER A MEAT

I was out of town today, so I didn't take any photos around the neighborhood. Tonight, while looking for something to post, I found this (that I took back in April):

Since I posted something yesterday about some Signs in the neighborhood in need of repair, I updated the post to include this photo, and wrote about the kerning, but I had to make sure I wasn't way off on the name, so I looked it up online, and found this:



This video has only been up for four days!

Signs

I don't want to come across as too critical, but there are some signs I've noticed recently that are in need of repair. Here's the first one, from the side of a building on East 3rd Street:

If you look at this, you will notice horizontal lines that were used to keep the size of the letters and the leading (space between lines) consistent. This was commendable. I commend the maker of this sign. However, once the letters are in place, it's customary to remove those horizontal lines. Leaving them makes the sign look unfinished.

Here's another one:

I wouldn't expect the curator of an art gallery to know anything about kerning (the space between letters), but I would expect the person who applied these letters to, and to use his/her better judgement, and not simply place the letters as printed. The kerning on this is terrible.

[UPDATED 9/1]

Ee-gads. The kerning on this one is so bad that I can't tell if it's deliberate or not. Maybe it's Spanglish for "See Meat," or "Look To Meat," or something.