^ No - I'm just not expressing myself well. The anachronism isn't in the type, but in how and when the type is used. Pre-war period usage for large public buildings would be all-caps, with mixed-caps reserved for more informal advertising, etc, as Mr Downtown notes. Later, in the Fifties & Sixties, a shift to informality on large, important buildings - cursive script, mixed caps and, later still, occasional all small caps. The BoA singage employs the period typeface in an anachronistic fashion by mixing upper and lower case on a period building that would, when built, have used only upper case.
In other words, they are using pre-war typeface on a pre-war building in a post-war manner. Hence the anachronism.
Like I said, Im not complaining - I like the new signage.
Last edited by wrab; Sep 12, 2008 at 7:59 PM.
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