That London Tube typeface? Look again
I can’t believe it’s not Johnston!
6 min readFeb 28, 2018
It’s a point of embarrassment to me that I only learned a few days ago one of the oddities to do with Johnston, the typeface used by Transport for London (TfL) since it was designed in 1916. TfL has had many names over the years — it was then known as “the Underground Group” — but the face has remained constant. It’s what you associate with…
