Gary Yau | Hong Kong Road Signs and Prison Gothic Font Preservation

Gary Yau, a Hongkonger in his 20s, created the “Road Research Society” in 2016. He has spent several years cataloguing the remaining 500-600 road signs featuring Hong Kong’s unique bilingual “Prison Gothic” font and have reproduced this font in published books and online posts that share information regarding roadways.

Culture, History, PersonalWe Are HKers20 December 2021road signs, Prison Gothic Font, bus, road design, typography, sign, transport, culture, cultural conservationComment

【Video】Lee Kin Ming | Repairing, evolving and circulating Hong Kong fonts

Lee Kin Ming is the founder of ‘Li Hon’s street calligraphy conservation project’. He has worked in his father’s signage shop since young and has recently started to digitise Mr Lee Hon’s calligraphy and has started a crowdfund. He wrote the book Looking at Hong Kong’s Signage to record Hong Kong’s signage history.

Video, Arts, Culture, HistoryWe Are HKers23 November 2020lee kin ming, fonts, typography, art, create, li hon, calligraphy, calligrapher, conservation, street, sign, signboard, design, designer, history, tradition, traditional, characters, chinese, language, mehporpor, zucchhi, crazy man, lazyass, just.production, sam, firefly, onehungrycoconut, jmComment