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Here’s Utrecht in September:

By the way, thank you to everyone for sharing further and reposting! 16. In Chicago, you can still occasionally spot these old enamel sign with distinctive digits and a quirky letter G (it’s always G, isn’t it…).

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Interesting! The Taiwanese one has a different 9:

15. Some three-dimensional license plates in Hong Kong:

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14. Trains in Poland used (and still use) this DIN cousin with an extremely distinctive, and ever-changing 2.

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(↑ I have been informed that last one is actually Seattle) 13. Chicago had this memorable Starsiak Clothing font sign that someone turned into an entire font: www.thechicagoneighborhoods.com/fonts/p/star...

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Good stuff! Please keep them coming! 12. New Jersey Turnpike’s super distinctive neon signage.

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11. Anyone travelling on London’s Tube will recognize this font with a strange baseline and a quirky W:

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10. A pixel font from the NYC Times Square news ticker, 1990s–2000s. (It’s possible this was more of a generic font used elsewhere, but I think it came to be associated with this specific place, time, and purpose.)

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9. I linked to this a while back – more quirky enamel house numbers in the Netherlands.

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8. Modern Germany has a specific license plate font that's designed to be hard to mess with. It is also used to mark parking spots. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FE-Schr...

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7. East Germany used a particular version of Gill Sans. I love these signs. Very hard to find photos these days.

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6. Also in San Francisco, there are these classic distinctive house numbers. The story is here if you are curious: sunnysidehistory.org/2020/07/15/t...

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

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4. In at least parts of Poland, there used to be this distinctive street name font, with a fascinating R.

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3. 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.)

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2. In Hong Kong, I saw this fascinating stencil font for I think electricity markings? Or gas?

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Here are some examples: 1. 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.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 10/08/2026

I was hoping for your help with something. (Please RT for reach.) 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? Road signs, street names, transit, infrastructure, stuff like that?

An old dot-matrix display at the platform of Bay Area Rapid Transit near San Francisco

An old street sign in Szczecin, set in a distinctive typeface

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@bzotto.bsky.social Do you happen to know what this font is called? I vaguely remember reading about it long ago, but I can’t find it now.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 07/08/2026

I don’t know *why* this fixes it, though. I would expect “position: relative” without any specified position to be absolutely inert. Might be some Safari quirk, or maybe I’m missing something. Anyway, hope this helps somehow.

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 06/08/2026

I noticed that the click target is also offset in desktop Safari (18.6), so maybe this is a clue of some sort…

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 06/08/2026

This is the recording of iPhone mirroring with the Safari console connected to it underneath. No idea! (I’d DM-ed, but Bluesky DMs don’t support attaching images or videos.)

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 06/08/2026

Sorry, where is the other toggle here? Only the top one seems to be an interactive thing. Maybe I’m dumb. 😬

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 02/08/2026

I think the same just happened to me. What the hell

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 19/07/2026

Here are some examples of emoji as UI I could find (alas, language barrier makes this hard for me). Not sure if this was common and tbh I’m not sure I know exactly what I’m looking at. Fascinating ,though.