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As a type nerd, wowza; this is why I come to HN. I'd never even think to look for this. Thanks for the share.

Love the over the top Amrit D.J. Band ones; they remind me of old school Barnum & Bailey signs.

The Philippines has similar billboards and painted jeepneys you might like. Lots of signs have now been replaced by advertisement banners though (Coke prints your store sign, all signs look the same, coke logo bigger than your store name)
Related, there are many painters, who work as employees at truck repair or denting painting shops, and write generic words like TANK on Diesel Tank, or like OK BYE TATA on rear bumper, or simply names, with dome petals around them. They start with a yellow rectangle, and then paint black lines as negative space, eventually bringing out yellow letters out.
Thanks for sharing! I always love looking at the hand-painted advertisements when I'm back in India. I almost never see it in the cities these days (billboards have taken over), but back in my parents' villages, a lot of older painted advertisements (like Maha Cement) are still there on the walls that run past the main street.

On a side note, I have an HTTP200 license plate and I want to get some nice Indian truck style lettering saying HORN <HTTP200> PLEASE around it :)

Can someone now Vibe-code a web font-generation tool that converts these typographic gems into full embeddable web-fonts?
This is v cool! thanks for sharing
I am a noob, but is the Zohran Mamdani (new NYC mayor candidate)'s campaign also using this style of typeface for the logos etc. It looks similar.
I've always observed a curious thing within India regarding the Devnagari (Hindi) and Latin (English) scripts. Essentially all English words are always written in Devnagari, but it's rarely the other way around. For example it is much more likely to see इंग्लिश टू हिंदी than "angrezi se hindi".

My personal theory is that this is because you can make every sound you hear in English using the Devnagari script, but not the other way around.

Tangential novel recommendation: A House for Mr Biswas (V.S. Naipaul)
Wow, it seems this newspost isolated all Hindi Speakers (mostly Indians !!! ) watching news.yc