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Take The TTTT

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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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  • ariehsinger

    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!

  • Kevin Bracken

    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

  • Kevin Bracken

    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!”

  • rek

    See them now, before they’re removed and destroyed!

  • antiboy

    I am so damn excited for this.

  • joeclark

    Yeah, T-Rex, they might.

  • andrewpmk

    The Scarborough RT is closed on Sundays for maintenance (see ttc.ca). Meeting at Scarborough Centre station is probably not a very good idea.

  • joeclark

    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.

  • David Topping

    Fixed.

  • joeclark

    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).

  • Chris Taylor

    I want one of the dragon-shield St. George logos when they get around to destroying that station.

  • joeclark

    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.

  • joeclark

    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).