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by 082349872349872 2102 days ago
I've sometimes wondered why the Hershey Fonts have such a nice set of cyrillic vectors. Maybe making things like https://i1.wp.com/www.numbers-stations.com/wp-content/upload... is something one would prefer to do on an in-house plotter, rather than sending it out to an ordinary print shop?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_fonts

Edit: the bus stop has been replaced, and the kerbside tree is gone: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Druzhby+St/@55.7139414,37....

(it was conveniently located between an "embassy row" and a nice park with scenic overlook)

https://www.google.com/maps/@55.709541,37.5422738,3a,75y,90t...

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and the dead drop location from: https://www.numbers-stations.com/articles/trigon-numbers-sta...

https://www.google.com/maps/@55.7272732,37.5479753,3a,75y,15...

(unfortunately nowhere near close enough to see if the sign is still there)