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Old December 24th 03, 07:09 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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In message , Robin May
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Roger wrote the following in:
news:lhtguvomgr0s2prih3vfb83li79afpu8cu@utgarthr. nildram.co.uk

On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:11:23 GMT, "Richard J."
wrote:


Compare pages 4 and 7 of the Fares for 2004 leaflet. On the
Carnet advert the full stops and the dots on the "i"s do not
have straight sides; on the Oyster ad they do.


Ah yes. What is this typeface with the slightly concave sides on the
dots? Is it Johnston, or some dodgy copy?


Looking at the document in the full version of Acrobat (which identifies
embedded fonts) it seems that it uses a version of New Johnston made for
TFL, as the font name is NJTFL - it is used in four versions:

NJTFL-Book, which has the concave dots and is used for body text.
NJTFL-Medium, straight-sided dots (used for lighter headings).
NJTFL-Bold, straight-sided dots (used for stronger headings).
NJTFL-BookBold, concave dots (used for bold in tables).

The illustrations on pages 4 and 7, mentioned by Richard, are scanned
images but the originals were presumably produced using these variant
versions of Bold and BookBold respectively.

There is an illustration of the NJTFL-Medium character set (with some
other information about TFL signage typography) in TFL's document on
sign standards for River Services:

http://www.transportforlondon.gov.uk...nsStandard.pdf

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Paul Terry