I just thought I’d introduce you to a few little morning pleasures I encountered, this morning. this cute Japanese Logo is of the Hieroglyphic variety, trying to symbolise absolute everything it stands for within itself. Though awkward as a unit, the layers of visual puns delight me! We’ve got the mobile-phone L of course, and the two wheels for the O’s, but the absolute kicker is the two little radio-wave things emanating from the final character. That last character without two dashes is pronounced Hee, but adding two dots turns it into Bi, making the logo LocoMoBi. I love the fact that even that tiny detail has been modified to add meaning to the whole.

And in the ever-raging Arial debate, I would just like to add this tightly-leaded Arial to the growing library of proof that Arial is a beautiful digital letterform in its own right, putting aside all considerations of readability, of course.

My final morning pleasure is this little ode to tiny arial. I don’t actually expect anyone to read it at this size, but isn’t is so pretty abstractly? An adolescent gazelle stumbling gracefully about, on uneven and wobblingly-thin stalks of legs.

That was actually a poem, wonnit?

Arial is an
adolescent gazelle who
stumbles gracefully 
on uneven and wobbling
thin stalks of legs.