I was hoping for your help with something.

[secretasianman@types.pl]

@mwichary there's the house face of the TTC subway in Toronto which is similar but different than Johnston Sans

[tehabe@norden.social]

@mwichary the FE font of German number plates maybe. was made so that people couldn't a P into an R https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FE-Schrift

[mwichary@mastodon.online]

5.
Anyone traveling by BART in California’s Bay Area will instantly recognize these two classic fonts used in this distinctive way.

[mwichary@mastodon.online]

@secretasianman Oh yeah, I love that font!!! It’s so quirky.

[mwichary@mastodon.online]

@tehabe Ha, yes! Coming right up as an example in a thread, as soon as Mastodon un-rate-limits me.

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@mwichary Does this count?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_alphabet#Alphabet

No, it's not used in street signs or anything like that, but it does pop up from time to time, and when it does, I can tell the creator is someone who really knows their Utah history

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@mwichary A sort of a typographical shibboleth, I suppose

[scruss@xoxo.zone]

@mwichary @secretasianman there's a whole saga about how the Toronto's TTC was going to release a free version of the font, but had a massive falling out with the project proponent.

[pete@social.coop]

@mwichary I feel like Gill Sans is _very_ much of London, but that might be too obvious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gill_Sans

[brunogirin@mastodon.me.uk]

@mwichary my home region has a specific typography that you can find in many places (PDF): https://www.bretagne.bzh/app/uploads/charte_graph_RB_2025_sept_2025_v03.pdf

[autiomaa@mementomori.social]

@mwichary Traffic sign typeface guidelines for Finland, written in Finnish language:
https://www.traficom.fi/files/media/file/Liite_11_Liikenne-_ja_viestint%C3%A4viraston_tieliikennemerkkien_kirjasintyypin_mitoitus.pdf (PDF file)

Traffic signs of Finland in printable vector file formats:
https://kuvapankki.traficom.fi/en/album/8865

[brunogirin@mastodon.me.uk]

@mwichary the Johnstone typeface used by Transport for London: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnston_%28typeface%29

And there's a specific typeface for UK road signs too, I can't remember what it is.

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@mwichary How about video games? This font is used extensively in-world in Final Fantasy 14. It has a sort of exotic look to it, but the glyphs are one-to-one with English, so it's actually readable if you are familiar with it: https://github.com/karaipsum/Eorzean-Typeface

(this is someone's third-party re-creation of the in-game typeface)

[atsuzaki@types.pl]

@mwichary the portland classic ceramic house numbers came to mind https://www.pdxmonthly.com/home-and-real-estate/2021/03/the-relics-of-portland-s-great-renumbering

[mwichary@mastodon.online]

@brunogirin I think it’s called Transport!

[scruss@xoxo.zone]

@mwichary The Cambridge Tile Company address tiles used in Milwaukee and Portland.

These are repros, as the originals haven't been made in decades:
https://shop.historicmilwaukee.org/products/milwaukee-address-tiles-brackets

[rmartinnielsen@mastodon.social]

@mwichary Something else led me to these crib sheets for geoguessr which may be of use/interest: https://www.plonkit.net

[wintermute_bbs@oldbytes.space]

@mwichary

[syferdet@toad.social]

@pete @mwichary

The European train station font. I use Underground in my department pictograms in a writing project.

[dried@sonomu.club]

@secretasianman @mwichary was just about to mention this, glad I'm not the only one!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Subway_(typeface)