Typophile

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Whats the type used by the BBC on its digital text service?

Thank you

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sample?

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It would help us if you would please provide a link or a sample of it, rather than ask us to find it first.

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Here you go, I believe you're looking for this:

http://www.bitstream.com/categories/products/fonts/tiresias/screenfont.html

Apparently, its actually illegal to use any other font in the UK for subtitling on digital television (no, really), and BBC use it for text services on DVB too. So that covers digital terrestrial broadcasts (Freeview), but I am not sure about digital satellite (Sky) or digital on demand (Homechoice).

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