{"id":22204,"date":"2010-11-04T07:10:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T14:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=22204"},"modified":"2010-11-04T01:56:49","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T08:56:49","slug":"the-wonky-type-at-10-downing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/22204","title":{"rendered":"The wonky type at 10 Downing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/typefoundry.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/number-ten.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/10downing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;If I could change anything, I&#8217;d straighten up that 0 on the number 10. It&#8217;s a bit wobbly.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/typefoundry.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/number-ten.html\" target=\"_blank\">an excellent read<\/a> by J.M. Mosley on the odd lettering used for the numerals at 10 Downing Street. Not quite the original, sort of an accident that is now part of history.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting how small type details are often overlooked. The numbers on my own home are rather awful, and even though several years back I&#8217;d purchased <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stylehive.com\/bookmark\/classic-house-number-design-within-reach-455777\" target=\"_blank\">some Bodoni<\/a> as replacements, have never gotten around to actually installing them.<\/p>\n<p><em>Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/matthewwilliamsdesign\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Williams<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"The wonky type at 10 Downing\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/22204\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;If I could change anything, I&#8217;d straighten up that 0 on the number 10. It&#8217;s a bit wobbly.&#8217; Here&#8217;s an excellent read by J.M. Mosley on the odd lettering used for the numerals at 10 Downing Street. Not quite the original, sort of an accident that is now part of history. It&#8217;s interesting how small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,54,49,120],"tags":[121,126,67,58,122],"class_list":["post-22204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-design-history","category-education","category-typography","tag-design","tag-education","tag-fonts","tag-graphic-design","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22204"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22212,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22204\/revisions\/22212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}