Inside the Little Plastic Castle

Thanks to GuyZero at MetaFilter, here's a grand visual toy. You too can while away a couple hours clicking and giggling.

Need a safety sign? August 18, 2020

Need an ANSI Z535-compliant safety sign? Sure you do. Here's a convenient sign generator in case you need to let people know that something is dangerous.

https://www.metafilter.com/188296/Need-a-safety-sign

At MeFi you’ll find more than 200 hundred meme attempts. The MeFi posts are the punchlines — you click through to see the image.

Here’s mandolin_orange's contribution. The post contains exactly the words "BUCKLE UP." This links to a generated Warning! sign with icon of closing seat belt + icon of person trapped under wheeled machine with text reading "Buckle up. I'm a fucking awful driver."

( click for pic )

Damon Burke, of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, made this tool to generate safety signs for labs, machine shops, and the insides of our overtaxed brains. To go directly to the generator, visit https://observatory.db.erau.edu/generators/signs/. Scroll down to "New to safety signs" for instructions.

( all sourced at garage sales )

MyGuy places one of these plastic toys in the front window as a 3D message system. The terrified rider atop a warthog means "I'm out with the dog." The miniature R2-D2 appears when he's out on a bike ride. The green Gumby says simply, "I'm out."

99% invisible, which is my #1 favorite podcast

https://99pi.org

also posts articles. Here are two wonderful ones about U.S. highway signs:

American Highways 101: Visual Guide to U.S. Road Sign Designs & Numbering Systems

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/american-highways-101-visual-guide-to-u-s-road-sign-designs-numbering-systems/

Tricky Business: Appearing on Blue Highway Exist Signs is Harder Than It Looks

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/tricky-business-appearing-blue-highway-exit-signs-harder-looks/

Font Squirrel is a great place to go when you're looking for a new font for a project, website, or reading application.

Like many font sites, you can browse by style like "serif" or helpful tags like "corporate" or by language like "Hebrew."

But you don't even have to search for "FREE" because all the fonts on the site are ready to download, most of them with webfonts as well as desktop, application, and ereader licenses. Many are as lovely as the ones I pay hundreds for at commercial foundries.

They also have an "almost free" section listing bargain fonts.

https://www.fontsquirrel.com