Nice looking pure nonsense.

Sorry.

Nice!

Real constructive Andreas.

There are relations between typefaces, ok. But tell me what has that to do with London’s tube railway network? You could display nearly anything in that manner and it would not make much sense either.
FWIW, I think you were just tempted to pinch the famous Underground map design … which I understand.

Have you thought about creating your own presentation system? This could have been quite interesting.

I should have known better than to ask you lot.

There is some withdrawal syndrome going, so someone could be a little grumpy, but there’s no ned to call us “lot” ;-)
(It’s better to develop a bit of an hard skin if you plan to hang around any online community, even more if you plan to deal with clients!)
Personally, I find it an amusing and well executed exercise, not dissimilar to the periodic table of typefaces or other Underground map-inspired designs.

Your (!) superscript size is inconsistent.

Good idea—requiring you to consider the intersection of categories, and come to the conclusion that certain faces, eg Broadway, are representative of more than one.

Sure, it's a cliché to appropriate an infographic metaphorically—and the correspondence between form and content will be forced and not entirely logical—but that may lead to discoveries (see Broadway, above).

AFAIK, although the Tube map has been repurposed before, nobody has yet swiped it for type classification, so there is some originality involved. At least it's not the periodic table.

While I would have liked to have seen more "St Pancras" multi-intersections, and a Circle Line, I think you did a good job of making the design work both conceptually, and in the execution of the map.

As a product, I'm not sure it's particularly functional unless one knows what the faces look like. Isn't there some way to show the faces without disrupting the modernist minimalism too much?

And I certainly won't be buying a print, although I might commission you to produce a Shinntype version :-)

Yes, that would be the 21st century meta-design trick—create a program that spits out a map for whatever group of keyworded-by-category faces are entered. (The MyFonts tag cloud does that, although "free" isn't much of a phenotype.)

@Geofferino: If you haven’t already come across this, I recommend reading some Edward Tufte — http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi

You may also enjoy:

Ehses, H. (1976). Design Papers 1. Semiotic Foundations of Typography. NSCAD University. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Ehses, H., Lupton, E. (1988). Design papers 5. Rhetorical handbook: an illustrated manual for graphic designers. NSCAD University. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Ehses, H. (2008). Design papers 6: Design on a rhetorical footing. NSCAD University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Ehses has a background in rhetoric and semiotics. He is a strong participant in the field of visual rhetoric and uses the rhetorical process as a foundation for design process.

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He also uses several communication models from the field of semiotics to help graphic designers understand the communication process, such as Shannon (1948).

His recommended reading regarding semiotics:

Fiske, J. (1982). Introduction to communication studies. Guernsey Press Co Ltd, Great Britain.