James Hohmann visits WMATA’s sign shop.
Discreetly, nothing is said about the hand-made annotations to the elevator call buttons that are meant to keep us from pushing the emergency notifier when all we want to do is get to the train mezzanine.
Technological developments continue to change the way signs are made and installed…. In the… not-so-distant past, workers meticulously copied the wording from a sign they needed to replace. Now they snap digital photos.