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- Don't forget Johnston
... in a newspaper ad and it reminded me again how important Edward Johnston ’s Railway type (1916) has been to the sans world. It’s ... that Gill Sans got 95% of its genetic material from Johnston, and that Johnston preceded Futura by 12 years. I can’t think ...
Forum topic - londontype - 21 Feb 2006 - 10:22pm - 21 comments - 0 attachments
- Heavy Condensed Serif
... Victor Caruso and Ernst Friz Agenda by Edward Johnston Modesto by Jim Parkinson Laudatio by ...
Forum topic - henand - 7 Oct 2008 - 1:07am - 5 comments - 0 attachments
- Edward Johnston exhibit at Ditchling
Delete it was last year - this 2007 thing is rough. ‹ FontExplorer, Quark, and the disappearing font $100 Computer OS-Sugar › It ended 1st October 2006! It ended 1st October 2006! Thanks for sharing though. B*gger, I think it w ...
Forum topic - londontype - 4 Jan 2007 - 2:34pm - 3 comments - 0 attachments
- Edward Johnston sign
A interesting sign from Edward Johnston from http://ahds.ac.uk/visualarts/collections/appliedarts.htm ...
Forum topic - bojev - 4 Aug 2006 - 8:12am - 2 comments - 0 attachments
- Designers
... : John Bell : Nick Belshaw : Georg Belwe : Edward Benguiat : Jared Benson : John Benson : Linn Boyd Benton : ... Fehrle : Mário Feliciano : Dr. John Fell : Edward Fella : Paco Fernández : Martin Fewell : Vincent Figgins ...
Wiki - Duncan Forbes - 12 Sep 2008 - 5:35am - 0 comments
- >>> Type ID Pop Quiz V2.3.2 - Intermediate Level
... P22 Underground Pro expanded on the historical design by Edward Johnston . P22 Underground Pro has five lowercase g’s. ...
Forum topic - Bald Condensed - 21 Jul 2008 - 7:04am - 243 comments - 0 attachments
- (x) Looking for New Johnston - proprietary (various alternatives) {Bert (Stephen)}
... typeface, Johnston Sans, designed by the calligrapher, Edward Johnston (1874-1944) in 1916. Pick had hired Johnston to create a more ... A modified version of Johnston’s typeface, New Johnston, is still used by London Transport today.” From the ...
Forum topic - Robin Stephens - 22 Apr 2006 - 1:11pm - 14 comments - 0 attachments
- [[Edward Johnston]] must be turning in his grave
... ’London’s Handwriting, the development of Edward Johnston’s Underground Railway block-letter’ by Colin Banks, ...
Blog entry - Richard Hards - 21 Jan 2006 - 2:38pm - 13 comments - 0 attachments
- Eric Gill
... and Crafts in London by type-designer and calligrapher Edward Johnston (designer of Johnston Sans for the London Underground). ... successful sans-serifs. The typeface was inspired by Edward Johnston ’s sans serif for the London Underground. Today Gill Sans in ...
Wiki - Richard Hards - 11 Feb 2008 - 4:21am - 0 comments
- FFMeta: the first comission for an identity typeface?
... he put an article from Baseline 7, 1986 online. Edward Johnston’ Railway Edward Johnston’ Railway Type (1916) would also qualify, wouldn’t it ? ...
Forum topic - James Puckett - 18 Feb 2008 - 7:10am - 28 comments - 0 attachments












