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Old June 15th 16, 09:44 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Robin[_4_] Robin[_4_] is offline
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On 15/06/2016 09:19, wrote:
In article ,
(Graeme
Wall) wrote:

On 15/06/2016 07:24, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 15/06/2016 01:20, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2016\06\14 19:11, Graeme Wall wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-36525214

Crossposted to UTL.

There is an outstanding article at


http://www.londonreconnections.com/2...d-johnston-100
/

I like the fact the article is set in the new font.


Sorry, meant Johnson New font.


Johnston 100, surely? New Johnston was the 1979 rework.

No. John Bull added later, in the comments:

"This article is set in New Johnston (i.e. the typeface first created by
Eiichi Kono). TfL were kind enough to grant us a one-off license to use
it on this specific article.

That in itself is an honour, as over its 100 year history you can (quite
literally) count the number of times an ‘official’ version of Johnston
has been sanctioned for use outside of a TfL/LU body on the fingers of
one hand.

Johnston100 is not used anywhere yet. It will debut in July."

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