For a long time I've had a secret crush on the San Francisco Department of Public Works--the folks who make the byways more inviting than the highways. SFDPW is so hip, I follow them on Twitter! This year my love dares to speak its name with an 8-foot-high valentine made with Capture it, Koczman Bálint's stencil font. The guys and gals in reflective vests are sure to identify with the spray-down cred working through Bálint's characters. Two decisions remain: Should we set SFDPW COMPLETES US in Capture It negative (which prints as if cut out of a stencil sheet) or positive (the letter alone) and should we specify safety-cone orange or roadwork-sign yellow for the background?

Now that I've found a slew of custom embroidery houses on the Web, I wish my Cable Guy were a Cable Gal. If my provider have a Cable Gal scaling poles, running wire, and never breaking a circuit, I could order up an electrifying valentine with the words "Cable Goddess" styled in High Voltage and embroidered on a hot-pink ball cap. Typographer FontStruction wires classic black letter to calligraphic script for characters that sizzle when outlined in metallic thread. Surely, my idealized Cable Person would like the ziggy embellishments--and the fact the sun wasn't in her eyes--almost as much as I liked finally getting to design a ball cap. She wouldn't even mind being called Shirley.