What's this British midcentury font?
February 10, 2018 4:46 AM   Subscribe

The one on the old Greenwich Time Signal. Similar to the one that used to be on BBC Television Centre (cw: huge image, maybe not mobile-friendly). What is it?

Small-caps; letter spaced; bold; oblique. Slab-serif (distinctively so on C). It may be a BBC internal font (but it's not Washington, the BBC sans font of the time). It's a little like Haas Profil without the outline. Usual font tools draw a blank.
posted by scruss to Media & Arts (5 answers total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
Maybe Clarendon?
posted by KateViolet at 5:10 AM on February 10, 2018


Response by poster: It's pretty close, but the R is too fancy in Clarendon.
posted by scruss at 5:25 AM on February 10, 2018


Here's an interesting article about the BBC Television Centre signage typeface.
posted by humph at 7:13 AM on February 10, 2018 [4 favorites]


Response by poster: humph, yes, I linked to that article in my question.
posted by scruss at 7:51 PM on February 10, 2018


Mod note: Final update from the OP:
[ OP says the font mentioned in this MeFi post, Festive / Festival Egyptian, is the very font they were looking for. ]
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane (staff) at 11:41 PM on April 23


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