Hong Kong’s Highways Department says it has no plans to expand the use of a “beautified” street sign typeface which has attracted dozens of complaints and the ire of social media users. Criticised as “ugly,” and “near unreadable,” the 60-odd new street name plates have been refreshed to “infuse a strong cultural atmosphere into the community’s landscape,” the department told HKFP on Friday. But users of X, previously Twitter, were not amused. “The pointless and ugly new font has arrived at the harbour… One’s sense of balance and composition and basic human decency recoils,” wrote one user. Ano…
