October 20, 2002
surprising oneself
Having come across the location of the beta Flash 6 player for Linux, I wandered off to the Flash 6-only (as in, you don't get to see anything unless you have Flash 6...) Saint Etienne website to see if I'd been missing out by not having the latest proprietary plugin (pah!).
If you happen to have a look, move the mouse over "House of Jansch" and wait for the voiceover - sound familiar ? (check the cover picture of this album). But that's about the limit of my pop-culture awareness.
And excuse the font nerdery, but that definitely wasn't Gill Sans on their made-up underground map. The l's are a dead giveaway.
Anyway. I'm off to listen to Finisterre one more time.
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Comments (3)
The Underground map font isn't Gill Sans, but one custom-designed in 1920 or so by I forget whom. (It may be Harry Beck, the designer of the map, or Morison or Times Roman fame or someone named Johns[t]on; my memory fails me right now). For one, it originally didn't have a lower case. Gill Sans (from about 10 years later) was inspired by it, though.
Posted by acb | October 21, 2002 11:44 AM
Posted on October 21, 2002 11:44
According to the Beeb, who should know but aren't infallible, the font was commissioned by Frank Pick and designed by Edward Johnston in collaboration with Gill. Done in 1916 allegedly, too. All the guff:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A673517.
Posted by darren | October 21, 2002 2:03 PM
Posted on October 21, 2002 14:03
Well, it seems I'm Just Plain Wrong :
http://www.thetube.com/
has those funny l's, too.
Oh well. That'll teach me. Sorry.
Posted by cos | October 21, 2002 3:56 PM
Posted on October 21, 2002 15:56