HolidayClosures
HolidayClosures answers whether US banks, mail, markets, federal offices, schools and trash pickup are running on a given day. Every answer is hand-checked against the institution's own calendar — the Fed, USPS, NYSE — and where next year's schedule isn't published yet, the page says so.
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The homepage is a board of eight hanging enamel signs — dark green plaques with brass eyelets and a drawn hanger arc curving above each one — set on warm cream beneath an ink-black header. The verdict does the typographic work: OPEN several times the size of anything near it, the service name in small letterspaced caps above, the next holiday in quiet two-line type below. Further down, the same sign shape shrinks into cream pill buttons for the single-question pages, so a broad scan and a specific lookup share one visual grammar. Ochre rules and underlines are the only accent, leaving the grid as the one loud thing on the page.
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