I was hoping for your help with something.
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I was hoping for your help with something.
Is there a particular font that’s instantly recognizable to someone who lives where you do, and appreciated/recognized/hated there, but completely unknown elsewhere? Something on road signs, street names, transit, infrastructure, stuff like that? I’ll share some examples in the thread.
I’d love to learn more about these. I’m not afraid of links in languages I don’t understand, ha.
(Also please repost for reach if you are willing!)
Thank you!
I'm Scottish. I'd say the two obvious candidate are Transport, the font used on all UK road signs (although the kerning on this example is terrible), and Reith Sans – the house font of https://www.bbc.co.uk/
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I was hoping for your help with something.
Is there a particular font that’s instantly recognizable to someone who lives where you do, and appreciated/recognized/hated there, but completely unknown elsewhere? Something on road signs, street names, transit, infrastructure, stuff like that? I’ll share some examples in the thread.
I’d love to learn more about these. I’m not afraid of links in languages I don’t understand, ha.
(Also please repost for reach if you are willing!)
Thank you!
@mwichary Parisine in Paris métro.
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In Rotterdam, I spotted this quirky house number font with a very distinctive 3 and 5. I also saw it on some (historical?) license plates.@mwichary yep that's the standard house number plate! Very recognisable
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@mwichary Dark blue with white letters is indeed historical for Dutch license plates, used only on classic cars that were first registered as new before 1978.
@sindarina Yeah, also saw it once more on another old car.
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@mwichary yep that's the standard house number plate! Very recognisable
@florine Do you know if it’s specific to a region, or all over the country?
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I'm Scottish. I'd say the two obvious candidate are Transport, the font used on all UK road signs (although the kerning on this example is terrible), and Reith Sans – the house font of https://www.bbc.co.uk/
@se_davidobrien TIL Reith Sans!
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@brunogirin I think it’s called Transport!
@mwichary @brunogirin but there's also the UK street name font, most recently known as Kindersley Street or Kindersley Grand Arcade — https://wemadethis.co.uk/blog/2022/02/street-name-fonts/
(also a product of a fight between two type designers)
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@mwichary Parisine in Paris métro.
@mariejulien Thanks! Do you know if people love it/hate it/are indifferent/etc.?
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@mwichary Not used where I live nowadays, but I recently learned about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_Alphabet
@mwichary Nice overview of ze jerman fonts: https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/germany-sign-fonts
I just learned that #berlin has its own font
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I was hoping for your help with something.
Is there a particular font that’s instantly recognizable to someone who lives where you do, and appreciated/recognized/hated there, but completely unknown elsewhere? Something on road signs, street names, transit, infrastructure, stuff like that? I’ll share some examples in the thread.
I’d love to learn more about these. I’m not afraid of links in languages I don’t understand, ha.
(Also please repost for reach if you are willing!)
Thank you!
@mwichary https://www.mijksenaar.com/project/amsterdam-schiphol-airport/ frutiger (not a free font, unfortunately)
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@mwichary Nice overview of ze jerman fonts: https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/germany-sign-fonts
I just learned that #berlin has its own font
@slink Oh, very cool. Thank you.
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@mwichary https://www.mijksenaar.com/project/amsterdam-schiphol-airport/ frutiger (not a free font, unfortunately)
@joostvb Oh, yeah, classic! Also Dutch railways, right?
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@pete Well…
(This is East Germany.)
@mwichary Yeah, doesn’t fit your criteria but I think Londoners do consider it theirs.
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@mwichary Yeah, doesn’t fit your criteria but I think Londoners do consider it theirs.
@pete Yeah, I was just kidding. Def. super British.
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@mwichary
For the first one I don't know the font name, but I see its usage in the historical part of the Montevideo - Ciudad Vieja (The Old City), see the example in the attached media.For the modern applications, the local government ordered to design the Ciudadana - https://fd.ort.edu.uy/novedades/ciudadana-tipografia-montevideo-120148
https://tipotype.com/ciudadana/@gemelen Wow, thanks!
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@mwichary As a Finnish person, those signs are everywhere around the cities and roads. As a typeface it is not that much liked, but it is readable.
Street signs have different typeface that has a bit more nicer feeling, but the reading distance is smaller for those, so typeface details can look more beautiful (compared to traffic signs).
@autiomaa Thank you!
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Metron by Jiří Rathouský (1973), Prague Metro, Czechia. Digitized by František Štorm.
@chemlon I love this one!
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@mwichary @brunogirin but there's also the UK street name font, most recently known as Kindersley Street or Kindersley Grand Arcade — https://wemadethis.co.uk/blog/2022/02/street-name-fonts/
(also a product of a fight between two type designers)
@scruss @brunogirin Thanks!
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I'm Scottish. I'd say the two obvious candidate are Transport, the font used on all UK road signs (although the kerning on this example is terrible), and Reith Sans – the house font of https://www.bbc.co.uk/
@se_davidobrien @mwichary Transport is also used on https://www.gov.uk/ and one of the reasons that site is so good (not always in terms of content, of course).
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Taiwan has this characteristic license plate font with a droopy 6 and a cool 3. The digit 4 doesn’t appear very often because of bad luck, so when it does, it seems to be celebrated maybe? (Last photo.)@mwichary I love the Q!
