Exhibition “Letter by Letter, Street by Street, The Living Scripts of Hong Kong” curated by Chan Sai-lok, with a core concept that highlights Hong Kong’s unique typography culture. The exhibition is divided into three major sections, aiming to showcase the historical and cultural dimensions of Hong Kong’s Calligraphy & Typography through the basic necessities of everyday life.

The first section (寫字生活), presents diverse personal interpretations of handwriting, introducing variant Chinese Characters (異體字) and the stories of the legendary calligrapher (寫字佬). The second section (書到用時), explores the fusion of calligraphic tradition and practical aesthetics, focusing on signboard culture and platform calligraphy (e.g. MTR station signage). The final section (印藝設計）, examines the evolution of Chinese typeface design and printing technology, featuring movable type, fonts, and road signage typography.

The exhibition weaves together Hong Kong’s everyday aesthetics and street-level culture across food, streets, design, and books, inviting visitors to deeply experience the beauty of text that defines this city. Among the highlights are four sets of faithfully reproduced hand-drawn manuscripts of glass neon signs from the 1950s to 1970s, based on the book Neon Hues: The Visual Documentation of Restaurant Neon Artworks, vividly recreating the classic look and feel of that era’s hand-painted signage.