the font from the underground

When the Toronto subway first opened to the public in 1954, they used a unique and easy to read font for wayfinding and signage. Since then they have moved on to using a mixture of sans serif type for the most part, but the original font is what stands out best. It is often mistaken for Gill Sans, but it is actually based on Futura.

The original typeface is a sans serif in upper case only, with numerals, ampersand, period, and apostrophe, and an arrow.

Now you can have it yourself...