letraset lane .. .

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Back streets cobbled
   hidden off-street parking
   green door shabby
   betide brushed-tin sign

placard to an advertising
   business, screwed flush
   against the wall, engraved
   in times new roman

desk-top publishing’s arrival
   puts the squeegee on
   umlaut-serif, graphic artists
   march past longacre town

leaving letrasets behind
   they discard their levi’s
   and their rotrings put on
   classic shirts and ties

no regard for family business
   36 points of clarendon, not
   so bold, peignot a semi shuffle
   down arial typeface lane

we lost so much of culture from
   basker-ville of life, impact-full, sans-
   serif, microsoffic futura; they sold
   desdemona’s birthright, 0 ‘the shame 

solide mirage typeface eventually
   and uniquely monospaced, a
   proportional companion to the pro-
   gressive leic-est-er family band

strange the unconventionality
   of his willow-warbler sound
   steeped in an Elliot wasteland
   typographically lucida grande

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©edenbraytoday30.05.2025

Authors notes:

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This typeface – ‘Solide Mirage’ was created specifically for the band FAMILY’s album – it is a squared monospaced typeface with a proportional companion.
Strange band are we – yet none taught me to read or to understand T.S.Elliot – you either get it or you dunny
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‘Dog and his master, took out together
Heading due west, away from the east
Walking the road, leading a blind man
Staff in his hand, and a dog that could see
Strange looking band were we’

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–  J. Whitney / R. Chapman © 2 hours ago, edenbray