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Chris Knowles

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Feb 21, 2007, 7:46:27 AM2/21/07
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Can any name the font used on London street signs? A sample can be seen at:

http://photo.net/philg/digiphotos/200102-e10-london/orange-street-sign.half.jpg

WhatTheFont and Identifont don't come up with anything close. Google does
not provide any clear suggestions other than Albertus, which it patently is
not.

TIA
Chris


Andreas Höfeld

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Feb 21, 2007, 10:27:15 AM2/21/07
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"Chris Knowles" <christoph...@baesystems.com> schrieb:

It's Univers Condensed (some semiboldish weight) - the G is a
giveaway.

Andreas

Character

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Feb 21, 2007, 10:36:58 AM2/21/07
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Chris Knowles wrote:

A discussion thread in Creative Bits (found with google, by the way)
includes the following possibilities. I haven't checked them out.
http://creativebits.org/london_street_signs_font

FF Govan 1
Univers Bold Condensed (as indicated by Andreas, too)
Grotesque Extra Condensed

and this article
http://rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2004/07/london_street_s.html

hope it helps ...

Chris Knowles

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Feb 21, 2007, 11:03:50 AM2/21/07
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"Character" <Ch...@cters.old.style> wrote in message
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Thanks guys for your help, much appreciated.

Chris


Andreas Höfeld

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Feb 22, 2007, 5:22:51 AM2/22/07
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"Character" <Ch...@cters.old.style> schrieb:

> > Can any name the font used on London street signs? A sample can be seen at:
> >
> > http://photo.net/philg/digiphotos/200102-e10-london/orange-street-sign.half.jpg
> >
> > WhatTheFont and Identifont don't come up with anything close. Google does
> > not provide any clear suggestions other than Albertus, which it patently is
> > not.
>

> A discussion thread in Creative Bits (found with google, by the way)
> includes the following possibilities. I haven't checked them out.
> http://creativebits.org/london_street_signs_font

Nice assortment of wild guesses ;-)))

> FF Govan 1
> Grotesque Extra Condensed
and not to forget: Trade Gothic was suggested as well.



> and this article
> http://rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2004/07/london_street_s.html

Which is about older street sign lettering. The most promising
link on that site http://www.publiclettering.org.uk/Streetnames.php
unfortunately leads to a 403 error. My money is still on Univers, even
though they may have some "company" font based on it but with minimal
changes - the Univers design is too old to be protected, even in Europe.
Anyone can make their own unless they want to call it "Univers" :-)

Andreas

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