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London street signs font

digilee (221 pencils) | Tue, 2005-07-12 08:30
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Guys,

I am frantically trying to find out what font is used on London street signs.
i have tried Gill Sans and Johnson, (the underground font), plus others but nothing is correct.

Does anyone know what and where i can buy it?

I have googled, of course, and searched around on fonts.com etc but nothing!

If you don't know what it looks like, here is a sample:

http://www.mrfwood.com/photos/stickers/images/UK_streetsign.jpg

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digilee | Tue, 2005-07-12 09:11

Just to let you know that after an exhustive test on identifont, they came up with FF Govan One. Still not correct but very similar.

http://tinyurl.com/7dczq

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bteverybody | Tue, 2005-07-12 15:08

It looks like Univers Bold Condensed, or something very close to it.

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digilee | Tue, 2005-07-12 16:02

I spoke to a font builder earlier and he generally said that the actual typeface is not around but the nearest is trade gothic.

It's the nearest that I can find anyway.

http://www.linotype.com/13007/tradegothicbold-font.html

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Abdul | Tue, 2005-07-12 17:35

Mate, try Grotesque Extra Condensed. Looks almost like it, I think.

http://www.linotype.com/13434/grotesqueextracondensed-font.html

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smellvetica | Tue, 2005-07-12 19:13

Hi all, I was researching this for a pal the other week, here were my finds..

Street signs:
http://rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2004/07/london_street_s.html

Tube/Bus/DLR:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/pdfdocs/signs_standards.pdf

enjoy

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p4trick | Tue, 2005-07-12 20:58

LONDON UNDERGROUND BY P22

http://www.p22.com/products/london.html

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digilee | Thu, 2005-07-14 11:47

Well I got down to using Trade Gothic. The only differences are G, S and E. Seeing as I won't be using those 3 in the logo, it works!

Thanks anyway guys.

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