A very conspicuous display of apartment block number

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As we travel around and through some public housing estates in Singapore, we would have noticed that there are many different designs of block number display, mounted on different facades of the buildings at different heights.

Some displays are clear in the day but not at night, some are covered by tree branches, some have poor colour contrast at night, some are mounted at a height that pedestrians or motorists would find it hard to detect and some are mounted at non-standard facades and it becomes difficult to the public to know where the display board is actually located.

The picture above shows one where the reasonably large-sized block number is painted right at the top of the front facade of the building, facing the main road.