On 16:51 9 Feb 2021, Recliner said:
Graeme Wall wrote:
On 09/02/2021 13:49, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 11:58:43 on Tue, 9
Feb 2021, Graeme Wall remarked:
On 09/02/2021 11:11, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 09:51:33 on Tue, 9
Feb 2021,Â* Basil Jet remarked:

Â*One of the numerous sans serif typefaces, but definitely
not Johnston.

Â*I was a little surprised that "Sans Serif" as an April Fool,
was the lowest scoring one in yesterday's "Pointless", despite
the really heavyÂ* hints in the question about lower/upper
case.

Where did the spaghetti harvest come?

Much higher (which surprised me because it was significantly
earlier).

Circa 1957 IIRC whereas San Serif was in the 1970s.


Yes, 1977:
https://static.guim.co.uk/ni/1454601.../San-Serriffe-
special-report.pdf

Of course, in that era before desktop publishing, few ordinary
people knew much about fonts, let alone about sans-serif font
families.

In the bad old days you may have needed a trip to the St Bride
library off Fleet Street to research obscure fonts. I think it's
closed down now that everyone has the Internet.