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Helvetica and the New York City Subway System: The True (Maybe) Story (MIT Press)

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 | #144804 in Books |  MIT Press |  2011-02-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.50 x.75 x11.00l,2.30 | File type: PDF | 144 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A Sign of the Times?|By Kim Seale|This book may easily fall into the category of "everything and more than you ever wanted to know" about the use of typeface or letter styles in the New York City Subway system. On the one hand, it is easy to dismiss this as simply a study of the evolution of a specific font. However, when considered in the overall context of the evolution of| ||The book is a must read for sign nuts, design nuts, transit nuts, and all true lovers of New York. (Julia Turner Slate)

|A concise history of the New York subway, a visual archive of century's worth of underground signs (some o

For years, the signs in the New York City subway system were a bewildering hodge-podge of lettering styles, sizes, shapes, materials, colors, and messages. The original mosaics (dating from as early as 1904), displaying a variety of serif and sans serif letters and decorative elements, were supplemented by signs in terracotta and cut stone. Over the years, enamel signs identifying stations and warning riders not to spit, smoke, or cross the tracks were added to the mi...

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