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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-08T17:38:42.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Contributed by Florian Hardwig\n\n\n _**Source: archive.org **Internet Archive. License: All Rights Reserved. _\n\n\n\n\nDavid Attenborough celebrates his 100th birthday today. The BBC pays tribute to the great natural historian and broadcaster, and the Guardian has a list of his 100 most spectacular TV moments.\n\nOn Fonts In Use, we take a look at the titles for The Living Planet. A Portrait of the Earth. Written and presented by Attenborough, the BBC nature documentary series first aired in 1984.\n\nFrom Wikipedia:\n\n> The sequel to his pioneering _Life on Earth_ , it is a study of the ways in which living organisms, including humans, adapt to their surroundings. Each of the twelve 55-minute episodes (one fewer than his previous series) featured a different environment. The executive producer was Richard Brock and the music was composed by Elizabeth Parker of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.\n\nTitle designer Margaret Perry worked with a typeface that hasn’t come up here before: it’s **Ageratum** , a serifless roman – or calligraphic sans – with distinct contrast, flared stems, and large x-height. It was issued in the 1970s for phototypesetting by Headliners. I haven’t found out the name of its designer yet. The name of the typeface is, quite fittingly, derived from the natural world: Ageratum is a genus of flowering plants in the Asteraceae family, and better known in the United States as whiteweed.\n\n>\n\n\n_**Source: archive.org **Internet Archive. License: All Rights Reserved. _\n\n\n_**Source: archive.org **Internet Archive. License: All Rights Reserved. _\n\n\n_**Source: archive.org **Internet Archive. License: All Rights Reserved. _\n\n\n_**Source: archive.org **Internet Archive. License: All Rights Reserved. _\n\n\n_**Source: archive.org **Internet Archive. License: All Rights Reserved. _\n\n\n_**Source: archive.org **Internet Archive. License: All Rights Reserved. _\n\n\n_**Source: archive.org **Internet Archive. License: All Rights Reserved. _\n\nThis post was originally published at Fonts In Use\n\n* * *",
  "title": "The Living Planet. A Portrait of the Earth titles"
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