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A letter from Eiichi Kono to the designer of Johnston Sans, the famous London Underground typeface Dear Mr Edward Johnston May I take the liberty of introducing myself so that I can bring you up to date on the fate of your typeface? I am a graphic / type designer. I was born in Japan and some hundred years after your birth I came to England to study. Almost as soon as I arrived I came face to face
London to the letter: meet Edward Johnston, the font of all tube style
As ubiquitous as the black cab and the double-decker bus, so omnipresent in the city it is practically invisible, the London Underground typeface celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2016. To mark the centenary, a Sussex village, where this most metropolitan of lettering was dreamed up, is putting on a show. Edward Johnston, who created the typeface in 1916, moved to Ditchling, at the foot of the r
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Underground: 100 Years of Edward Johnston's Lettering for London - Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft
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