This amazing project by lettering artist, type designer, teacher, design historian, and all around type nut Paul Shaw, has recently come to fruition, and is an incredibly detailed history / type design case study for the ages. I don't profess to know much about type or this Paul Shaw character, but I would love to get my hands on this book! The type / lettering design of each different subway stop has always fascinated me. This beauty of a book contains a lifetime's worth of research on why things look the way they look today in the oft-times grimy underworkings of NYC. Astonishing work. I'm glad people like Paul Shaw exist to bring us treasures like this.
Images from the MyFonts Blog
Buy the book here for a meager $85.00 plus shipping (someday...)
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