They call it "Press-On" lettering, not "Get It Straight And Press It On".
A license should be required to use sticky vinyl letters.
If you can't make up your mind but know you don't like those darn round circles, stretch the letters to double width and squish the periods to half width and nobody will notice the two deformities cancelling each other out.
(near the Cambridge Side Galleria, Lechmere)
Enough of that kerning could destroy anything!
(Some parking garage in Harvard Square.)
Enough of that kerning could... aw, hell with it.
You know your kerning is too tight when the width of "Ti" is less than the width of "T".
(Macy*s store, Natick.)
Scientists know it as the international symbol for "DNA".
(China Eatery, Back Bay, near Symphony Hall. Maybe they thought it was a G clef?)
Real Sign Coming Soon.
(Allston. They did get a real sign when they finished construction.)
Close-up of vinyl letters struggling to escape from the hot sun.
Little-known fact: Sticky letters are made out of vinyl sheeting, and so are Shrinky Dinks.
(Chinatown Eatery, aka The Chinatown Food Hall. Surrounded by GOOD restaurants in Chinatown.)
Yikes! Patrick Moynihan's name is creeping away to eat at Chinatown Eatery!
(Boylston T station.)
Toys R Edible?
Another sticky-letter tragedy. Note that they made their own "N"s out of halves of an "M". Hence they had to make the second one backwards. Even though they had a correctly-formed model to work from... half an inch to the left.
(Montien restaurant, Chinatown.)