WSC

• When London Underground changed their font.

  2016
• Frank Pick


  Commissioned Edward Jonston to bring visual uniformity to London, in the tubes
• Font Edward Jonston made

  Johnston sans
• Date Johnston Sans was made


  1916
• Eicchi Kono


  Slightly edited Johnston Sans to make it printable.
• Example of a change made by Eicchi Kono


  Fullstops looked like diamonds
• Font used in London's underground s of 2016

  Johnston100
• Reason for London underground changing the font

  Wanted to make it more modern
• John Hunter


  Head of the TFL (Transport for London)
• Donna Steel

  A woman who loved Johnston Sans
• Reason why Donna Steel likes the changes made to the London tube in 2016

  It restores the font's Idiosyncrasies (quirks)
• What letter was changed the most from the London underground in 2016

  The G

  
• How did the G change in 2016, in the London underground

  The bottom of the G is diagonal instead of horizontal
• What is the new standard font used in Microsoft

  Aptos
• Former name of Aptos + Reason why it changed its name

  Bierstadt (beer city) to aptos, changed it because it wasn't serious enough
• Steve Matteson


  Person who created Aptos
• Reason for microsoft changing its default font?


  Renew more subscriptions of microsoft 360
• Si Daniels


  The person who decided to change the default font
• What are the four default fonts?

  Aptos, Calibri, Times New Roman, Arial
• Former microsoft default font

  Calibri
• Monotype


  The business where Steve Matteson works
• Fonts made by Steve Matteson


  Segoe, Curlz, Aptos
• Former names (multiple) of Aptos


  Koyuck

  Grotesque No.2

  Bierstadt
• Bierstadt


  The former name of the font Aptos, which is named after a mountain in Colorado
• What is aptos named after?

  A town in California
• Advantage of Aptos

  The lowercase l and capital L are not similar
• Lucas de Groot


  Creator of Calibri
• Calibri and Aptos relationship


  They are convertible
• Johannes Gutenburg

  Invited the printing press

  
  

  Invented letter blocks

  
• When was the typewriter made?

  1400's
• Disadvantage with Johannes Gutenburg's font

  It took up too much space
• Nicholas Jensen


  Invented italian humanist lettering to save space

  
• Date of Nicholas Jensen humanist lettering start

  1410
• Aldus Manutius and Francesco Griffo


  Invented italic fonts

  
• Reason Italic font was made

  To save space
• WIlliam Caslon