d8boy

While I agree with OisinT that the signs are clean and elegant, I’m not sure how functional they are.
1. They lack distances. So the sign at square on Dame Street beside City Hall tells me that City Hall and the Guinness Stores are both west, but doesn’t say that first is 10 metres away and the latter over 2km, and thus beyond the walking capabilities of the infirm and/or unfit…
2. Either by accident or design, some of the direction are plain odd. The sign beside the Bull and Castle on Christchurch Palace directs people to Temple Bar east along Castle Street, rather than pointing north.
2. The square column, while a useful way of frustrating the traditional Irish sport of sign twisting, imposes a constraint that all signs must be opposed at multiples of exactly 90 degrees. This is a bit inflexible particularly in the pre-Georgian parts of town where the street pattern is decidedly non-grid like. So the sign at the Peace Garden on Christchurch Place/Nicholas Street had the sign for Guinness Storehouse pointing ambiguously towards Dublinia, vaguely suggesting it lies at the bottom of Winetavern Street. I say had advisedly because today I notice that this has been fixed. Now none of the signs points ambiguously towards Dublinia; instead most of them point into the (permanently locked) Peace Garden!