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I'd appreciate some help in identifying all the fonts (call me greedy :-) ) used on the MTA MetroCard, used to pay fare to board the subway, below:

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The perspective makes it hard to tell for sure, but "MetroCard" looks like Helvetica Black.

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Everything associated with MTA is set in a variation of Helvetica. Wait until next year when you have your big type conference in NYC and ride the subway the poster will make you upchuck.

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Thanks Marc.

Actually Yves, I'm looking to forge...a business card. :-)

Daniel, if "[e]verything associated with MTA is set in a variation of Helvetica" this case is closed then, right?

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MTA has been using Helvetica as long as I can remember. Didn't Vignelli (Helvetica king) have something to do with it originally?

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