The Black Chancery Plague of Tropea

Photo: Florian Hardwig. License: CC BY-NC-SA.

Adding insult to injury: poorly drawn lettershapes plus erratic tracking

La tipografia di ristoranti a Tropea, 2/2:

Four restaurants, one typeface.

It seems that every other restaurant in Tropea, Calabria (population: 6,800) usesBlack Chancery, which together with Scriptina arguably is one of the most dreadful freebies in existence. How could this happen — do they all belong to the same owner? Did they copy each other? Or is the local signmaking company and its limited font repertoire to blame?

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The descending 'P' has been clipped in "Pizzeria". The last line appears to be stretched.

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… here I go again. This sign is credited to Romano Arti Grafiche.

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What happened to the 'g'?

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