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Font saving a town?
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Administrator  Join Date: Mar 2000
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You're right, that is a nice font. All towns should have their own excellent typeface.
I wonder if anyone has written an article "If this town had a font, it'd be.....". Which means some town, somewhere, is Comic Sans.
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Moderator Join Date: Jun 2000
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Some town somewhere is Papyrus.
<shudder>
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
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That is an attractive font, and a really good idea. A font unique to Chatanooga really sells "you're in Chatanooga," and both reinforces and unifies the experience of the visit. New York has subway signs, London has the Underground signs and the Thames, San Antonio has the outline of the Alamo, Las Vegas has neon, but none of those ties the experience of being there together the way Chatanooga using a distinctive, yet easily read font does.
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That really is a nice-looking font. Though, I don't think it's the most readable font for informational signage.
Originally Posted by andi*pandi 
Some town somewhere is Papyrus.
<shudder>
Muncie (where I exist) would be Comic Sans.
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I know there're several towns named Shaston. They'd all get the Apple II font. 
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you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
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Some random associations:
suburbia = Times New Roman or Arial (yuck!)
hip suburbia = Helvetica Neue
melting pot = Gentium
Weimar = Futura
Berlin = FF CST Berlin
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A special font for a single city? That's an interesting idea. I have to say that I don't think it will work for places that don't have unique names like Chattanooga, though. Then again, I could be entirely wrong.
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