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To celebrate the return of
Mad Men, and also to acknowledge
Revolutionary Road, this blog has been transformed* to point out the typeface blunder that both the tv show and the movie make: to think that Gill Sans would be used for signage in 1955 (
RR) or 1962 (
MM). Gill Sans was simply not on the radar in the US then – surely they mean Futura? And as for the Helvetica in the realtor’s sign in
RR – arrrgh!
* At least, for users of Mac OS X. It’s Twentieth Century if you're using WIndows.