Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s road signs

https://medium.com/@chrisgaul/prison-gothic-the-criminal-record-written-on-hong-kongs-road-signs-c54d655d55b5

by zhte415 • 7 years ago

87 12 7 years ago

I guess Medium has finally started requiring an account: "Keep the story going. Sign up for an extra free read." I can't figure out why people use this site for publishing things.

wongmjane• 7 years ago

This particular post is paywalled (it has the star next to the date) so the author/publisher can monetize it

inferiorhuman• 7 years ago

It loaded fine for me without a medium account. The images took a while to load though.

a012• 7 years ago

It's simplified: people need the SEO leverage of Medium instead of running your own website and SEO optimization (it takes time). Otherwise I don't see any else advantage of Medium. For the reader, there's an advice is to use reader mode on browsers, but Medium is limiting a few _free_ articles you can read.

tinus_hn• 7 years ago

On iOS the reader view shows pixelated low resolution versions of the images.

wazoox• 7 years ago

Open it in a private window, it works fine.

quickthrower2• 7 years ago

Yep don’t publish on Medium, instead publish on your own domain, or if not use github pages or dev.to or similar

wodenokoto• 7 years ago

There has definitely always been an in-your-face air to signs in Hong Kong, that you just don't find in Shanghai or Tokyo.

This explains a lot. The book must make for a great coffee table book!

cneurotic• 7 years ago

Wow. Lived there for years, studied Chinese, and never noticed these little variations of thickness / weight / line height.

What a cool peek into the obscure subculture of sign-crafting!

ngcc_hk• 7 years ago

Being hker also do not know

needle0• 7 years ago

This reminds me of Shuetsutai, a Japanese font that originated from ad-hoc duct tape guidance signs created to guide visitors of Shinjuku station, which is constantly under construction. The signs were made by a security company personnel who was assigned to the area, who got creative with tape and utility knives to improvise these distinctive letter shapes. He eventually got discovered by the graphic design community and ended up doing logos for films, album covers, etc. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%E4%BF%AE%E6%82%A6%E4%BD%93&t=ffab...

Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s road signs

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