Architectural cow skulls in Boston and Virginia
Adam at Universal Hub wrote about some cool architectural grotesques around Boston today. One that caught my eye was the cow skull on the Boston 5 Cents Savings Bank. As I wrote in the comments, this isn’t a gruesome ornament but a classical one, which also appears in Jefferson’s architecture at the University of Virginia:
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Here comes a special font
I’m jealous; my sister gets a font named after her before I do. (Not that it’s really named after her, but the new DSType font Esta at least shares her name, and there aren’t any typefaces out there called Tim.)
