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Moscow Metro vs. London Underground
Greetings.
In article , Basil Jet wrote: In message , Tristan Miller writes Even where signs were posted, sometimes it was in a very stylized font that took a while to read. The thing that looks like an M is actually a T with droopy serifs. The rest should be okay (in so far as any Cyrillic is okay). I know letter you're talking about, but I didn't actually encounter that particular representation. My complaint is that there is no consistency in the typefaces used for the station signage; some of the station names are rendered in fonts so stylized that they'd take a while to decipher even if they were written in the Latin alphabet. For example, one of the stations I passed through used an art deco–style font with very tall, thin letters, with the crossbars set very high. It was hard to tell П from Н. As bland as it may be seeing Johnston used everywhere on the Underground and other TfL services, you begin to appreciate it once you visit a public transit system where there is no consistency. Regards, Tristan -- _ _V.-o Tristan Miller Space is limited / |`-' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- In a haiku, so it's hard (7_\\ http://www.nothingisreal.com/ To finish what you |
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