October 25, 2007
Take The TTTT
If you really like typography, signage, and the TTC––like, really really like it––maybe you'll want to join Joe Clark this Sunday, October 28, at 2:00 p.m. at Scarborough Centre Victoria Park Station for the TTC Type & Tile Tour (or TTTT), a guided excursion through some of the Transit Commission's successes and failures with signage. (Mostly failures.) The itinerary includes trips to choice vacation spots like Victoria Park's bus bays and Spadina's Walmer Road exit, and, if it's successful, they'll be even more in weeks to come. If you're up for it, look for the man in the purple hat who seems super-enthusiastic about signage.
Photo of Rosedale Station's wall––which Joe Clark could tell you is set in Univers––by David Topping from 69.
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Oh man, I am so aggravated I am going to be out of town on work when this is on - it sounds brilliant!
Great job guys!
I would also like to attend but I will be in New York, supposedly the untested model for many of the TTC's newer signs
Helvetica Bold FTW
Okay, so Arial walks into bar, sees her friend Bookman and goes over to say hello.
"Ouch!" Bookman says.
"What's wrong?!" Arial asks.
"You're standing on my serif!"
See them now, before they're removed and destroyed!
I am so damn excited for this.
Yeah, T-Rex, they might.
The Scarborough RT is closed on Sundays for maintenance (see ttc.ca). Meeting at Scarborough Centre station is probably not a very good idea.
Wait, I count only four other stations with main station name set in Univers (Union, King, College, Dundas). Unless you’re talking about the ill-named Spadina line, where they all are (except Downsview).
Also, I plan only one more tour if this one works – the full-megillah YUS/Sheppard tour one week later.
Fixed.
We’re meeting at the bus bays, Andrew. Also, I thought the repair work was long since done (since they took down the signs advertising it only a week or two after the scheduled completion date).
I want one of the dragon-shield St. George logos when they get around to destroying that station.
Oh, dear. Andrew is right: They’re still running signal tests on the Scarborough RT on Sunday. A Plan B meeting point will be announced in the next half-day.
OK, I moved it back one station to Victoria Park, the new meeting place at the same time (at ground level downstairs inside the station).