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Re:Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s... by cneurotic on Sunday July 14, 2019 @06:36AM (#20432735)
Wow. Lived there for years, studied Chinese, and never noticed these little variations of thickness / weight / line height.

What a cool peek into the obscure subculture of sign-crafting!

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Re:Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s... by wodenokoto on Sunday July 14, 2019 @05:44AM (#20432616)
There has definitely always been an in-your-face air to signs in Hong Kong, that you just don't find in Shanghai or Tokyo.

This explains a lot. The book must make for a great coffee table book!

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Re:Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s... by needle0 on Sunday July 14, 2019 @11:39PM (#20437947)
This reminds me of Shuetsutai, a Japanese font that originated from ad-hoc duct tape guidance signs created to guide visitors of Shinjuku station, which is constantly under construction. The signs were made by a security company personnel who was assigned to the area, who got creative with tape and utility knives to improvise these distinctive letter shapes. He eventually got discovered by the graphic design community and ended up doing logos for films, album covers, etc. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%E4%BF%AE%E6%82%A6%E4%BD%93&t=ffab...
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Re:Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s... by ngcc_hk on Sunday July 14, 2019 @10:09PM (#20437620)
Being hker also do not know
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Re:Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s... by fred_is_fred on Saturday July 13, 2019 @11:45AM (#20428584)
I guess Medium has finally started requiring an account: "Keep the story going. Sign up for an extra free read." I can't figure out why people use this site for publishing things.
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Re:Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s... by a012 on Sunday July 14, 2019 @05:33AM (#20432582)
It's simplified: people need the SEO leverage of Medium instead of running your own website and SEO optimization (it takes time). Otherwise I don't see any else advantage of Medium. For the reader, there's an advice is to use reader mode on browsers, but Medium is limiting a few _free_ articles you can read.
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Re:Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s... by tinus_hn on Sunday July 14, 2019 @05:50AM (#20432629)
On iOS the reader view shows pixelated low resolution versions of the images.
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Re:Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s... by asutekku on Sunday July 14, 2019 @08:07AM (#20432987)
Those are the thumbnails and you may end up seeing them with a subpar connection. The site lazy-loads the images.
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Re:Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s... by quickthrower2 on Sunday July 14, 2019 @05:58PM (#20436409)
Yep don’t publish on Medium, instead publish on your own domain, or if not use github pages or dev.to or similar
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Re:Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s... by wongmjane on Sunday July 14, 2019 @05:32AM (#20432573)
This particular post is paywalled (it has the star next to the date) so the author/publisher can monetize it
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Re:Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s... by inferiorhuman on Sunday July 14, 2019 @01:49PM (#20434736)
It loaded fine for me without a medium account. The images took a while to load though.
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Re:Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s... by wazoox on Sunday July 14, 2019 @09:37AM (#20433282)
Open it in a private window, it works fine.
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