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Esseltub

Category	Sans-serif
Designer(s)	Stig-Åke Möller
Also known as	SS-grotesk and SL-grotesk

Esseltub (sometimes called Esseltube)^{[citation needed]} is the name of a typeface family formerly used in the Stockholm Metro. It was designed by Stig-Åke Möller and was originally called SS-grotesk and SL-grotesk before being digitalised by Bo Berndal.^{[citation needed]}

Prior to being replaced by Helvetica in the 1980s with black and white signs and later by Veolia Transport using a font called SL Nova,^[1] it was used on signs at the Stockholm Metro.