Was riding past the Bat and Ball Hotel (claimants of the least crap pub quiz) the other day and I was struck by this sign. I thought to myself: just when you have had enough Brush Script it surprises you again. This sign was hand painted – it doesn’t  look it in the photo – I am going back to double check! However, this is the thing, we have font that looks hand painted, that a “designer” has used to design this sign on a computer – you can tell by the outline around the slab font, it looks very mechanical – that in turn has been hand painted on the sign in a slightly thinner than normal design, so it looks mechanistic but its hand done — oh it does my head in — wouldn’t a nice hand painted with sweeping paint strokes by a sign writer “sign” have so much nicer; instead, of this informal-formal-desgin(y)-thinbgy sign — it so weird there is no word in the design vocabulary describe it. All I can say is a big typographic aaaaaarrrrrrgggggghhhhhh!!!!!!