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F for Finchley Road, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RNvYzgR3Pk (at 0:54)
This one has a reflection or shadow, but it looks like the glyph should be 9 pixels wide (or possibly even 8) instead of 10.

Similarly, the E from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCehoiuMYfE (at 0:00) is 9 pixels wide, so they probably both are.

Hi, kudos for this project! For a long time I'd been sitting on the Tube idly staring at the displays and thinking one day I should recreate the bitmap font, but obviously never actually did!

As I'm in NW London I thought I was in a good position to help with the missing Q, K and F, and have some hope of one day spotting a U. I realise you said "contact me on Twitter", but I'm not on Twitter, so here goes. I'm attaching a small number of video stills that I played with for the letter Q - more than happy to share the original stills or the whole video clip, which is about 12 MiB.

I'm a bit disappointed with the quality of the picture so may need to go back and take a close-up when I feel like it some quiet day.

However what I think I can see is that the "leg" of the Q doesn't seem to extend to the inside of the "O", and instead extends below the baseline and to the right of the right bound of the "O" it appears to me they made the Q asymmetric so as to have an even gap either side of the leg. I read it like this:

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I also took a clip at Kingsbury which I'll open a separate ticket for once I've had a look. F for Finchley Road and hopefully a stray U (Underground?) to follow.

Hi there, I am hoping you can talk me around where the breakdown is between your gorgeous font files and Microsoft.

My computer insists ALL the font files are not valid no matter how I try to install them, preview them, or insert them into the folder.
I can see the XML looks right viewed in notepad++ but obviously it is upset with something. Do you have any insight on how to fix them?

Chris

As in my post on Q, some (slightly disappointing) photos of the capital K from the Jubilee line at Kingsbury.