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Granby, CO -- U.S. town in Colorado
Population (2000): 1525
Housing Units (2000): 628
Land area (2000): 1.781148 sq. miles (4.613153 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.781148 sq. miles (4.613153 sq. km)
FIPS code: 31605
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 40.086396 N, 105.936487 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 80446
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Granby, MA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Massachusetts
Population (2000): 1344
Housing Units (2000): 541
Land area (2000): 3.474356 sq. miles (8.998540 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000711 sq. miles (0.001841 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.475067 sq. miles (9.000381 sq. km)
FIPS code: 26500
Located within: Massachusetts (MA), FIPS 25
Location: 42.258128 N, 72.521860 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 01033
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Granby, MA
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Granby, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
Population (2000): 2121
Housing Units (2000): 934
Land area (2000): 4.436066 sq. miles (11.489359 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.436066 sq. miles (11.489359 sq. km)
FIPS code: 28108
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 36.916553 N, 94.257167 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 64844
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Granby (electoral district)

Granby is a provincial electoral district in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada that elects members of the National Assembly of Quebec. Its territory corresponds exactly to the city of Granby.

It was created for the 2012 election from part of the former Shefford electoral district.

Granby (typeface)

Granby is a sans-serif typeface designed and released by the Stephenson Blake type foundry of Sheffield from 1930.

Granby is influenced by two contemporary British sans-serif designs, the Johnston typeface or Railway Alphabet (1916), the proprietary face of what became London Underground, and Gill Sans by Eric Gill (1928), published by Monotype. Roy Millington's history of Stephenson Blake also cites Futura as an influence.

Like both Johnston and Gill Sans, Granby has an upper-case influenced by Roman square capitals and a lower-case inspired by traditional "old-style" serif letters, making it an example of the humanist style of sans-serif fonts. Granby’s regular style is a robust design bolder than conventional body text fonts, making it suitable for headings and posters and also for legible text at smaller sizes.

Stephenson Blake had prepared type for the Johnston project and Granby is almost identical in many ways, more like Johnston than Gill Sans with diamond-shaped dots ( tittles) on the 'i' and 'j' and a wide ‘a’. A difference is its ‘g’, a ‘single-storey’ design influenced by handwriting. According to Mike Ashworth of Transport for London, London Transport itself made some use of Granby by the 1960s due to the limited availability of Johnston type.

Several styles of Granby were released to extend the design, including condensed weights, an inline style and 'Granby Elephant', an ultra-bold design. As with many sans-serifs, rather than a true italic, an oblique was offered, in which the letters were slanted but not altered to take on more handwriting influences.

While never as popular as Gill Sans on the commercial market, Granby nonetheless remained in use with revivals in phototypesetting and digital versions. A digitisation of some weights is sold by Elsner+Flake and Scangraphic; Red Rooster Fonts has also digitised the Elephant style.

Wayfarer, by Jeremy Tankard, is a loose revival of the condensed style, commissioned by Sheffield City Council as their corporate font based on its local heritage. Dieter Hofrichter's Halifax is also in the same style.

Usage examples of "granby".

The College of Basic Studies Bldg. on Commonwealth and Granby, approx.

This harbor will be a death-trap for any ship that comes in range,” Laurence said grimly to Granby, as he washed the dust of the streets from his face and hands in the basin set on the wall, and ducked his head in the water for good measure, wringing his hair out with some savagery: soon he would resort to hacking off the ends with his sword, he thought, if he did not come to a barber.