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!
@mwichary The Cló Gaelach font used on street signs in Ireland (also stamps, many publications in Irish)
https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2025/0331/1504912-dublin-historic-street-signs/
familiar to anyone Irish. Bilingual street signs are uncontroversial in Britain (Welsh in Wales, Scots Gaelic in Scotland, Chinese in parts of London eg) and Ireland but any public signs featuring the Irish language provoke tantrums in parts of Northern Ireland where British loyalists feel threatened by Irish culture.
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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 A classic in typefaces many places, the national train signage where I live is well reckognized and appreciated. Designed by local type foundry Kontrapunkt that has done several other very reckognizable public typefaces and can be read about here: https://kontrapunkt.com/work/dsb
