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Hardcover Helvetica and the New York City Subway System: The True (Maybe) Story Book

ISBN: 026201548X

ISBN13: 9780262015486

Helvetica and the New York City Subway System: The True (Maybe) Story

How New York City subways signage evolved from a "visual mess" to a uniform system with Helvetica triumphant.

For years, the signs in the New York City subway system were a bewildering hodge-podge of lettering styles, sizes, shapes, materials, colors, and messages. The original mosaics (dating from as early as 1904), displaying a variety of serif and sans serif letters and decorative elements, were supplemented by signs in terracotta and...

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