© 2010 James Patrick Gibson

If NYC had a graphic style guide…

It would be as follows:
Medium-toned blue with white Helvetica Bold, and slightly tight letter spacing. (See ConEd for reference.)

This newsstand must date back to the late 70’s or 80’s. Helvetica seems so out of brand for the New York Times

I’ll even New York-ify my blog. To be fair, it’s Alte Haas Grotesk (which tries to replicate the forms of Haas Grotesk, and simulates worn edges / ink bleed of older typesettings.) It looks a bit more New York.

24 Feb This entry was written by James Patrick Gibson, posted on February 24, 2010 at 3:00 pm, filed under Vending and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed. View EXIF Data

3 Comments

  1. Daniel Campos
    Posted February 25, 2010 at 11:00 am | #

    Please, set free images in RSS. I can see pics just in blog =(

  2. James Patrick Gibson
    Posted February 25, 2010 at 12:55 pm | #

    Fixed!

  3. Ben Thomas
    Posted February 26, 2010 at 10:52 pm | #

    This is definitely 80’s, early 90’s NYT. I remember seeing the blue boxes as a kid.

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