WHY is the signage on the Queen Alexandra Eye Pavilion—the main ophthalmology hospital for south-east Scotland—in a fancy hard-to-read typeface with insufficient colour contrast and a too-small font?
Are they TRYING to evade their customer base? 🥸
WHY is the signage on the Queen Alexandra Eye Pavilion—the main ophthalmology hospital for south-east Scotland—in a fancy hard-to-read typeface with insufficient colour contrast and a too-small font?
Are they TRYING to evade their customer base? 🥸
@cstross
Clearly it's the Flying Saucer Alien People yet again.
They think they're blending in, but no. There are these little tell-tale signs that they don't really understand humans.
Or are they using their signage as ultimate proof their services are working?
"You could not read that sign coming in, right?"
Did they include a braille description?!
@mossyrua @cstross I was recently in a building with temporary, laminated signs that includes braille—printed, not embossed. I’m assuming they are placeholders for when proper signs arrive.
eta: I was with my mother who is considered legally blind and uses a white cane away from home. We had a laugh about the signs. She doesn’t read braille.
@cstross Reminds me of when I needed to go to A&E in Tunbridge Wells.
In went into reception (which was unmanned), scratched my head at the signs for a while before picking the most likely suspect and the. Proceeded down a maze of twisty corridors and two flights of stairs by to be told Inwas in the wrong place and that Inhad to retrace my steps, exit through reception, then walk round the back of the building to find it.
There was a sign outside, not too close to reception. 😮💨
Sub-text surely is "if you can read this, you don't need us. go away"
@cstross Invisible runes..