Having successfully browbeaten the DPW into replacing the malformed Appleton Street sign, the font kvetcher of the South End has turned his steely gaze toward the no man's land between I-93 and South Bay, and he's not liking what he sees one bit:
This post is a perfect example of what's wrong with the new street signs being installed across the city with the new font. "BOSTON ST" is correctly printed using all capital letters. "Al Zwiercan Way" is incorrectly printed. The height ratio of the capital to lower case letters is completely out of scale and the name itself is crookedly printed. It looks shabby in comparison to the correctly printed sign for BOSTON ST. The new font is great, but it's important that it is used in correct scale. It is a small detail that makes a huge visual difference.
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At least both the major and
By anon
Fri, 02/24/2012 - 10:10am
At least both the major and cross street are identified in the city of Boston. As a transplant from NYC, I am constantly getting confused in the suburbs when the signage is only too clear on what cross streets I am passing, but gives me no clue about what street I am on.
Let me give you the Boston answer
By Lamartino
Fri, 02/24/2012 - 10:55am
"If you don't know what street you're on, what the hell are you doing there?"
You'll have to pardon the Boston suburbs. They labor under the assumption that not only was everyone born there, but nobody would want to move there. If you're the exception, they wonder why you haven't pored through every atlas, map, rulebook and ordinance list before you arrived.
Isn't that what every intelligent person does before they move anywhere? Doesn't everyone familiarize themselves with ever detail of the town they're relocating to, no matter how seemingly insignificant? How dare you not realize what road you're on, especially when that road name changes five times in two miles?
Remember, this is a place that greets requests for directions with such gems as "If you turn left where the old Dunkin Donuts sign used to be..." Boston's entire standard operating procedure is based on the assumption that you already know everything about the place, so signage on streets and around rotaries is minimal. Contrast this with New York, which correctly assumes that a lot of people who live and work in the city or visit it haven't done so their whole lives and try to spell things out as plainly as possible.
The "Reverse Curve Sign"
By Alex_Toth
Fri, 02/24/2012 - 12:25pm
Now that sign maker knew how to make a sign.
Buddy, that ain't no font
By Steve R.
Sun, 02/26/2012 - 10:04am
Doesn't this guy know its not a FONT, it's a TYPEFACE! Amateur.
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