There’s no font as synonymous with a single city as Johnston, the official typeface of the London Underground. First commissioned in 1913 from its eponymous creator Edward Johnston to be used in ...

One of today's most popular typefaces owes its inspiration to radical work done for the signage on British transport a century ago. Johnston Sans changed everything. In 1916, a small revolution in ...

Monotype has updated Transport for London’s (TfL) iconic typeface to coincide with its centenary, featuring new hashtag, “@” and ampersand signs. The new typeface, Johnston100, comes a century after ...

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Through its evolution, the Johnston typeface became narrower and more mechanical as functionality took precedence over historical design. The new Johnston100 typeface has a feeling of injected ...

This year marks the centenary of Edward Johnston’s London Underground font, one of the city’s strongest and most-loved pieces of branding. Its birthday will be marked with a number of events and ...