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Re: Interesting Things

Date: 2025-11-23 10:00 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
https://emilysneddon.com/fran-sans-essay

Interesting little article about the text displays used on some of the older cars in San Francisco's light rail line - which will be retired this year - and the creation of a font inspired by them.

I'd actually always wondered how they created those displays, since there's distinct rounded curves on letters like C and D but not on N. It's apparently a much more custom solution than I thought, and they got around troublesome letters that didn't fit in the grid by simply ... not bothering with them. Imagine proposing a new stop at Quintara Street and being told 'Yeah, no can do because we never designed our displays to show the letter Q.'
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Re: Interesting Things

Date: 2025-11-26 08:07 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Thank you: I enjoyed this. Also, I love a bit of obsession about making something that probably nobody will use because you just want to.

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