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mexican street signs
Photographs by Andrea
Marks. Stacked letters often
appear on commercial street
signs, which often employ thin,
vertical slices of space. The
letters in these signs were drawn
by hand. Wide characters and
squared-off Os stack better than
narrow letters with traditional
rounded forms. In some
instances, the letters have been
specially aligned to create
vertical relationships, as in the
“Optica” sign at right, painted
on a sliver of flat molding inside
a door frame.

stacked letters in urban space