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Old Nov 7, 2024 | 1:01 pm
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blockski
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Originally Posted by drewguy
The font was designed by Saarinen, the architect of the airport.

Always struck me as kind of futuristic.
I love the Dulles font. It's not the most legible, and they've moved away from it a bit for other directional signage, but still very prominent in the main terminal.

The original signs were created with the terminal building by Saarinen's firm; the airports authority had to hire a typeface designer later to digitize and modernize it from the old blueprints: Schwartzco Inc.

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