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H-Bomb: A Frank Lloyd Wright Typographic Mystery

76 pointsby mrngmlast Thursday at 9:18 AM19 commentsview on HN

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parpfishtoday at 4:33 AM

Im curious if the mounting points for the letters had 180deg rotational symmetry. If they didn’t (such as a mount point on the crossbar in the H), that’d go a long way to explaining “correctness”.

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greggsytoday at 4:32 AM

I was initially interested but after skimming through I questioned if this pedantic detective tale needed to be told…

Just send an email to the board of trustees / body corporate and move on.

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vessenestoday at 3:00 AM

For the love of all this is holy, do not read this article. If the internet has taught has anything, it's that you cannot unsee an image - I predict you will not be able to unsee upside-down H's (and even an S) post-reading. Save yourself.

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knallfroschtoday at 8:19 AM

All this because some guys installed the letters wrong?

Is this some kind of joke, or is the author really lost in some conspiracy-level detail tracking, hunting for "hidden signals"?

jsdaltontoday at 2:13 AM

I was more bothered by the extraneous word spacing on the second line, between “and” and “the.” Is it just me?

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brudgerslast Friday at 9:55 PM

I would not be surprised if the manufactured letters and their installation was based on hand hand drawn letters.

That it is not aesthetically obvious, suggests it was drawn that way and not a mistake. Good typography is subtle and bespoke typography even more so.

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