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[post_page_title]The signs were all there[/post_page_title]

An airport expert named David Zweig wrote in a book that “very, very little in the style of an airport sign is arbitrary.” He’s referring to many things, but especially the font.

The signs were all there

You might not think much about the font style when you look at the signs in airports, but apparently they only use three different ones: Clearview, Frutiger, and Helvetica. They are all sans serif fonts, and therefore they are all easily seen from far distances.

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