One of the great authentically ethnic signs of Seattle's Fremont neighborhood.          

This sign is purported to have started life as Helvetica, and only late in life under the influence of sun and rain and the steam of thousands of plates of Hom Bow did it discover its Orientalist roots. Like many of the tall tales that originate in a neighborhood presided over by a statue of Lenin and a Troll this rumor cannot be substantiated and is typographically dubious.

Image sent to me by Wynia, of Rhuby Architectural Glass, a place of astonishing wonders in glass  design and …. beetles transformed into translucent art.