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Questionable street sign font

Now, you know me. I’m as proud of Austin as the next guy. But correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this Austin street sign in papyrus font? I mean seriously, that’s only a half step above comic sans.

There’s a bunch of these on street corners around downtown. If you’re going to go the trouble of cutting letters into steel for a public works project, you would think you could get a font that wasn’t the second-most hated free font in the world. It’s the exact same font that came with my open source GIMP program. Check it out, most of the fake scroll notches in the letters are identical:

M. Bey

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