OpenDYSlEXIC

Following close in the tracks of the Open Source monospaced font, which will help readers differentiate between l's, I's, and 1s, a new OpenDyslexic font has been developed for dyslexic readers.  The letters are all "weighted" at the bottom, giving them gravity to help dyslexic readers from rotating or flipping them in their minds.  Look at the lowercase L ... it has a little foot!  Perhaps this will help not only the dyslexic but the dysgraphic as well.

Big Bird, little L

Tonight, in the 2012 Presidential Debate, Mitt Romney restated his intent to cut federal funding to public radio and television.  Within minutes, the Twitterverse was atwitter with an unemployed Big Bird, featuring images in which he sadly holds a hand written cardboard sign, "WIll WORK FOR FOOD." In Big Bird's defense, the uppercase i in WIll is serifed, adequately differentiating it from the following lowercase L's.  Still, #BigBird should know better. It's not like his funding has been cut yet.

Sukkah City FIlM

Brooklyn documentary filmmaker and friend, Jason Hutt, announces, in a timely fashion, Sukkah City, his behind the scenes film about the architecture competition of the same name, in which artists re-imagined the sukkah archetype, and the 12 winning structures were displayed in Union Square in New York City.  Pictured above is one of the winning structures.  Look closely at the white sign above and to the left of the black hatted sukkah goer. "Out of GAS Need HElP" is just one of the many pleas for gas, and HElP, featured in this collage of cardboard calling cards.  Look for Hutt's film in spring 2013.

Open Source GlYPHS

As reported on BoingBoing, today Adobe announced the release of Source Sans Pro, a new set of Open Source monospaced fonts for coders. The font will be especially useful for us folks who get confused between I, 1, and l.  Since you're probably not using Source Sans Pro to view this page, I'll translate those confusing characters: uppercase i, the number one, and a lowercase L.

ISlAM

Look, my friends, even this guy put some effort into correcting an obviously former lowercase L by squeezing a little uppercase action into ISlAM.  If he can do it, despite his Engrish, and in the wake of an attack on the US Embassy in Libya, there's no excuse why we can't, too.

FAllEN PRiNCESS

Brendan M. forwarded this provocative Flickr photo, a depiction of cocaine on a mirror, ready to be snorted by a FAllEN PRiNCESS through a rolled up bill.  While the coke is apparently just a little Sweet 'n Low, the double lowercase L's in FAllEN have soured my appreciation for this particular artwork.  But if the uppercase extension of the L's were intentional—perhaps as was part of a formerly uppercase i in PRiNCESS—in a monogrammatic tribute to the artist's muse, Lindsay Lohan, I'd say that was pretty creative.

MAlYA

No, it's not the 3D animation software.  That MAlYA is my wife, MALYA!  I cannot reveal who "Mollie A", but, as a friend, she should know better than to leave this kind of evidence lying around.

BIG BOTTlE SPECIAL

GnatBean explains:

Was out at the bar in Baltimore's inner harbor when I saw this. The lower case L makes me laugh but the apostrophe makes me weep for the decline of modern education. Noticing all the upper case Ls also included but the writer's dedication to the L in bottle just makes me scratch my head.

 Indeed, this is a very BIG BOTTlE SPECIAL case.  But it wouldn't be the first.

Don't Let Me ClOG

My wife, Malya, warned our guests, "Now that you know about the lowercase L phenomenon, you'll see them everywhere."  That was 24 hours ago.  Shortly after our friends parted company, bellies full of mead, the good Rabbi Matt Carl posted this passive-aggressive note on my Facebook Timeline.  At first I was unimpressed, because the obvious lowercase L's were not offensive in the purest form, as PleASe also contained adjacent lowercase e's.  But Rabbi Carl called attention to the toilet's green speech bubble in the lower left corner. "Don't let me ClOG" he says, with a smile.  Well played, Rabbi, well played.

BlUSH

Dave found this on PostSecret.com.  The author claims, "I BlUSH very easily. It makes me feel so ASHAMED." We know something else that should make him feel ashamed.