This gave me an unusual opportunity to compare the three systems firsthand, and to judge which was easiest to navigate.Īll three cities have had subways for a long time, so their subway systems have become conglomerations of once-independent underground rail lines, and palimpsests of various systems of naming, numbering, and signage imposed over the decades. A couple of years ago, I found myself riding the subways of New York, London, and Paris, all in the space of the same month. There are few more obviously functional forms of environmental typography than the signage in a subway or other transit system. You can find more from John at his website. If you’d like to read more from this series, click here.Įventually, John gathered a selection of these articles into two books, dot-font: Talking About Design and dot-font: Talking About Fonts, which are available free to download here. Barry (the former editor and publisher of the typographic journal U&lc) for CreativePro. Dot-font was a collection of short articles written by editor and typographer John D.
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