The purpose of the article is to find out – by analysing the inhabitants’ typographic practices – if urban lettering of public and semi-private spaces has any connection with the character of a particular place. Typographical features of Zgorzelec in Poland and Goerlitz in Germany have been compared. The two cities had had a mutual history, which has come to an end after WWII.
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