It is Helvetica. This has been discussed before.

Thank you very much.
BTW-- my search of the boards (NYC, subway, MTA, etc.) did not show it had been discussed before. Sorry!

> thanks

Speaking of subways, anyone else notice that the new trains (the ones that make that mournful ooh-ee-ooh noise as they leave the station) have done away with the color-coding? They use LEDs, which are always red, to identify the line. It's a real shame since the often-imitated color-coded circles were a brilliant graphic device and enabled you to tell what train was coming down the track from a great distance.

The font used on the subway signage is an old display version of Helvetica (or at least it was�if they've gone digital recently they might have changed it). This Helvetica Display hasn't been digitized by Linotype. URW has it, though, as Nimbus Sans P Bold. Personally, this is my favorite version of Helvetica.

[Compare to LT's Helvetica Neue 75 and Helvetica.]

Patricia -- I have noticed the new trains' LEDs, too, and will miss the color-coded circles when they are phased out! I wonder why they don't just change the colors of the LED circles by line.

Metadox -- Thank you for those examples!

I love the new subway cars color coding or not. Now if we could only get the 2nd Avenue subway built. And say NO to the Jets Statium!

NO to Jets Stadium! With you on that one.
And no to the Olympics too - who needs the crowds?
But I'm a curmudgeon. I miss the down and dirty seventies when the streets were safe for pimps and hookers. NY ain't the same.

I think the new cars are too bright inside. But I'm in a pissy mood since I just got off a train that was going about 5 miles an hour and crowded. I could have walked faster.

If they build that stadium we will have a 600 million dollar debt and no guarantees of any revenue being developed. Think of it a 1.5 billion stadium project and the thing only gets used 8 times a year. Bloomberg has gone mad.

NO Olympics!