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Gallusplatz signs

Photo(s) by Florian HardwigImported from Flickr on Mar 11, 2014. Artwork published in .
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Adrian Frutiger’s Univers is still omnipresent in Switzerland.

Swiss-style outward-pointing (single) guillemets are used even for the English text here.
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Swiss-style outward-pointing (single) guillemets are used even for the English text here.

The lines are sometimes flush-left, sometimes flush-right – but always aligned to the outside. It may sound logical, but that’s first news to most German signmakers.
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The lines are sometimes flush-left, sometimes flush-right – but always aligned to the outside. It may sound logical, but that’s first news to most German signmakers.

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