This sign was “creatively acquired” from a friend’s apartment building and has made the journey out West with me. Akzidenz-Grotesk (read: German for grotesque accident) was ironically–and unintentionally so–used for years on virtually all transportation signs in the Western world (the French had to be different and developed their own typeface for road signs, [...]
Doesn’t the title sound like the lyrics to a Kraftwerk song?
To explain: I discovered that my apartment building, built in the 70s, has the Akzidenz-Grotesk typeface featured on thermometers and switch-boxes.