Wall decals based on Toronto subway stations

Posted by Cory Doctorow, October 6, 2008 3:08 PM | permalink

Derek sez, "We recently produced a line of vinyl wall decals featuring the vintage 1978 modernist designs of the Toronto Subway system." These colors and lettering are permanently etched into my brain from a thousand million rides. Walloper (Thanks, Derek!)

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#1 posted by rcoder , October 6, 2008 5:32 PM

I have been obsessed with the font used in the old TTC stops since my first visit to Toronto last year.

There is a very nice recreation of the font available for purchase from Quadrat Communications:

http://www.quadrat.com/tsr.html

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#2 posted by Quiet Noises , October 6, 2008 7:46 PM

Such a pleasant font, I'm glad it's come up for purchase. It's somewhat a mystery of the TTC; the designer of the font, long forgotten like ghost stations of the past (unless I've been misinformed and it's recorded somewhere).

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#3 posted by The Unusual Suspect , October 7, 2008 8:37 AM

I've always imagined it to be the same font as used on the original Monopoly game board.

Are there subtle differences I've missed?

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#4 posted by David Topping

, October 8, 2008 8:51 AM

Given the TTC's history of litigiousness, you might all be happy to know that I briefly talked to TTC Chair Adam Giambrone yesterday, and his current plan to deal with the unlicensed decals is...to buy some of them to line his office walls.

http://torontoist.com/2008/10/ttc_station_decals_by_walloper.php