Larfleeze Wants A MetroCard
So I was riding the subway the other day, musing, as I often do, about how totally awesome comics are. And my attention sort of drifted to the subway map on the wall and I was looking at all the lines and the fairly obvious hit me. So I made all these Lantern symbols into New York City Subway signs, naturally.
Whoops, almost forgot one!
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Benjamin Birdie
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That’s a fantastic idea! Hate to be a nitpicky type nerd, tho: the fonts for the signage in the NYC subway are all done in Helvetica, and these look to be Franklin Gothic. Would love to see a Lantern sign at a major line transfer point, like where an Oa-bound Hal Jordan crosses a Korugar-bound Sinestro.
Oh, I love this! Wish I’d thought of it. But I did get a chance to rip off your idea!…
Actually, forepac, (as far as I know at least) the NYC subway font is Akzidenz Grotesk, which is the one I faithfully used.
I believe the newer signs are now supposed to be in Helvetica–the MTA adopted it as an official font in the 90s, I think–but there are still a large number of signs in the system in Akzidenz Grotesk and other fonts.
Mind you, if I were a transit system, a typeface name that sounds and looks like (even if it doesn’t translate into) “grotesque accident” might be one to avoid on a system of trains!
One last annoying comment: Here’s a fantastic article about New York subway/MTA typography.
This is my favorite thing.