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Custom font for the 1995 rebranding, designed by the Foundry (Freda Sack and David Quay) Metron: Prague Metro: Created in 1973 by Jiří Rathouský: Moscow Sans: Public transport and wayfinding in Moscow since 2015: Custom font family by Scott Williams and Henrik Kubel (A2-TYPE) in collaboration with Ilya Ruderman (CSTM Fonts) Motorway
In 2017, the BBC began to phase out Gill Sans in favour of a proprietary corporate font family, "Reith" (named after its first general manager John Reith), which was designed to be more legible on mobile devices, and did not require licensing for continued use. [147] The font was adopted by the BBC's corporate logo in 2021. [148]
Signs using Johnston, in the London Transport Museum Acton archive. Johnston had become interested in sans-serif letters some years before the commission: although best known as a calligrapher, he had written and worked also on custom lettering, and in his 1906 textbook Writing and Illuminating and Lettering had noted "It is quite possible to make a beautiful and characteristic alphabet of ...
Bliss on the University of Worcester logo. Bliss on the London G20 summit logo.. Bliss is a humanist sans-serif typeface family designed by Jeremy Tankard. [1] [2] [3] [4]Bliss is a design in the British humanist style, based on the Johnston typeface of London Underground as well as Gill Sans and Syntax, but with a more uniform style with greater evenness and similarity between weights.
Two forms of the typeface exist; Transport Medium and Transport Heavy. Both have the same basic form, but Transport Heavy is boldface, to allow easier readability of black letters on white backgrounds, such as those used on non-primary roads, while Transport Medium is lighter, and is used for white letters on dark backgrounds, such as the green primary-route signs.
Mandatory is a typeface developed from the Charles Wright typeface, [1] introduced for use on vehicle registration plates of the United Kingdom.Its block letters and numbers are designed to prevent easy modification and to improve legibility, with stroke separation on the M and W which are pointed at the centre, and the tail of the Q which is thinner and clearer.
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Margaret Vivienne Calvert [1] OBE RDI (born 1936) is a British typographer and graphic designer who, with colleague Jock Kinneir, designed many of the road signs used throughout the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies, and British Overseas Territories, as well as the Transport font used on road signs, the Rail Alphabet font used on the British railway system, and an early version of the signs ...