SLO’s street signs are infamous now — but they haven’t always been. See how they looked before
Joe McDermott, city streets supervisor, holds two of the options for the design of San Luis Obispo’s signs. The city settled ...
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‘Absolutely awful’ or ‘charming’? Here’s how SLO street signs got their funky font
Schwartz, meanwhile, thought the street signs should be consistent with other city images that had used the font for years. “It’s distinctive. It says, ‘This is San Luis Obispo ...
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SLO’s street signs are infamous now — but they haven’t always been. See how they looked before
That story was covered in a 2019 Photos From the Vault column ... Prior to that, the street signs were also a block letter design, and the color scheme was a simple black-and-white.