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NYC Parks / Palatino
Palatino typeface From Wikipedia: Palatino is the name of an old-style serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf, initially released in 1949 by the Stempel foundry and later by other companies, most notably the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. The font was named after Giambattista Palatino, a master of calligraphy from the time of Leonardo da Vinci. Palatino is a typeface based on classical Italian Renaissance forms.…
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Roosevelt Island Tramway / Tahoma
Tahoma typeface According to Wikipedia, Tahoma is a humanist sans-serif typeface that Matthew Carter designed for Microsoft Corporation. While similar to Verdana, Tahoma has a narrower body, smaller counters, much tighter letter spacing, and a more complete Unicode character set. This one was much much harder than I had expected, and I spent over 5…
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NYC Parking signs / Highway Gothic
About Highway Gothic From Wikipedia: Developed in the 1940s, Highway Gothic (formally known as the FHWA Series fonts or the Standard Alphabets for Highway Signs) is a series of sans-serif typeface developed by the United States Federal Highway Administration. It was designed to promote legibility from a distance and at high speeds. The thing that stood out to me…