What’s that sign font? It’s likely not a font at all. If not custom lettering, it may use prefab letters from a specialist supplier. These products were often used for mid-century buildings. Some styles are inspired by printer’s typefaces, but they are usually unique designs specifically for the architectural market.

Catalogs from these suppliers are tough to find. Fortunately some are available on @internetarchive, so I made a list: https://archive.org/details/@stewf/lists/1/prefab-architectural-letter-catalogs?sort=creator

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Preemptive Font ID: the (reportedly temporary) logo for the failing platform formerly known as Twitter is likely derived from a font that includes the Unicode character, Mathematical Double-Struck Capital “𝕏” (U+1D54F) https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/block/U+1D400. This Unicode block comprises styled forms of Latin and Greek letters and decimal digits that enable mathematicians to denote different notions with different letter styles [Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_Alphanumeric_Symbols].

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