Wow. Lived there for years, studied Chinese, and never noticed these little variations of thickness / weight / line height.

What a cool peek into the obscure subculture of sign-crafting!

There has definitely always been an in-your-face air to signs in Hong Kong, that you just don't find in Shanghai or Tokyo.

This explains a lot. The book must make for a great coffee table book!

This reminds me of Shuetsutai, a Japanese font that originated from ad-hoc duct tape guidance signs created to guide visitors of Shinjuku station, which is constantly under construction. The signs were made by a security company personnel who was assigned to the area, who got creative with tape and utility knives to improvise these distinctive letter shapes. He eventually got discovered by the graphic design community and ended up doing logos for films, album covers, etc. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%E4%BF%AE%E6%82%A6%E4%BD%93&t=ffab...

Being hker also do not know

It's simplified: people need the SEO leverage of Medium instead of running your own website and SEO optimization (it takes time). Otherwise I don't see any else advantage of Medium. For the reader, there's an advice is to use reader mode on browsers, but Medium is limiting a few _free_ articles you can read.

On iOS the reader view shows pixelated low resolution versions of the images.

Those are the thumbnails and you may end up seeing them with a subpar connection. The site lazy-loads the images.

Yep don’t publish on Medium, instead publish on your own domain, or if not use github pages or dev.to or similar

This particular post is paywalled (it has the star next to the date) so the author/publisher can monetize it

It loaded fine for me without a medium account. The images took a while to load though.

Open it in a private window, it works fine.