The American people have found so many ways to display ingenuity. Cars, lightbulbs, television, flight, toilet paper…all of these are American innovations (as far as we know), and all of them are just fine. But even those without backgrounds in science or engineering have been challenged to innovate by the advent of the marquee. Those alphabets apparently never come with as many characters as you need! So a P turns into a b; a C gets half-coloured in to become an O; a 3 gets flipped around into a makeshift E. Sure, the result sometimes looks jank. But surely we all have sympathy for the disadvantaged marquee maintainer…and, in any case, admire the timeless look of those beveled letters.
Have some Sympathy For The Bevel.
