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All too often with muddled street furniture and excessive road-signs, we miss the important ones, and can be some way down the road before we fully realise it.
Simple solution - print whatever the roadsign says on the reverse, in mirror-writing.
Also handy for variable speed limits like on the
M25, where the limit may have changed just as you pass under the gantry.
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But after years of exposure to mirror-image signs, I now read mirror-image writing as easily as normal writing. So, faced with a glass door, I am just as likely to read the word "PUSH" in mirror writing as I am to read "PULL" in normal writing. Similarly,
upside-down writing - if I drive towards the words "NO ENTRY" written upside down on a road, I'm likely to hesitate before realising that it applies to people going the other way. What's needed is a font which is readable normally but completely unreadable in either mirror or upside-down forms. |
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//What's needed is a font which is readable normally but completely unreadable in either mirror or upside-down forms// Welsh. |
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hippo, - a polarised typography (which may cause problems in the summer with certain sunglasses). |
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The have this on Ambulances in the US on the front edge of the hood. |
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I'd like for the signs for the other lane to have writing on their backs, written normally, so I can see what they say. I wind up reading them backwards in my mirror far too often, trying to figure out what turn I just missed. |
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I also empathise with hippo, I do the same thing. Short stuff like signs are equally legible forward or backward. |
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