List of public signage typefaces
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This is a list of typefaces used for signage in public areas, such as roads and airports.
- ANWB Cc – condensed road typeface used in the Netherlands, based on FHWA Series C. It is used mainly on fingerposts
- ANWB Dd – slightly condensed road typeface used in the Netherlands, which has been introduced in 2010
- ANWB Ee – commonly used road typeface in the Netherlands, based on FHWH Series E(M)
- ANWB Uu – new road typeface used in the Netherlands, designed by Gerard Unger[1]
- Austria – road typeface used in Austria
- Brunel – created on behalf of Railtrack for use in British railway stations by David Quay and Freda Sack,[2][3] also in use on Delhi Metro[4]
- Brusseline – developed for Brussels' public transport company
- Calvert – developed for the Tyne and Wear Metro by Margaret Calvert
- Carretera – developed for the General Directorate of Highways in Turkey
- Casey – developed by the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation for its own use
- Clearview – developed to replace U.S. Federal Highway Administration typefaces
- DIN 1451 – the German transport typeface
- Drogowskaz – the Polish transport typeface
- Esseltub – earlier used in Stockholm Metro
- FIP signage typeface - a modified version of Helvetica Medium used by the Government of Canada[5]
- FF Meta – used in Stockholm Metro
- Frutiger – used on Swiss road signs, across the public transport network of Oslo, Norway, by the Dutch National Railways, BAA Airports in the UK,[6] in the UK's National Health Service, and in Amtrak signage[7]
- FHWA Series fonts – sometimes called Highway Gothic. Developed for U.S. road signage, and also used in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and New Zealand
- Futura BSK – used by Italian railways[8]
- Gill Sans – used by British Railways until 1965
- Helvetica – used in the New York City Subway system, the Chicago Transit Authority system, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority system, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority system, and in the Madrid Metro; formerly used in Hong Kong's MTR and Stockholm Metro
- Helvetica Neue – used for road signs in Hong Kong
- Johnston – used by Transport for London
- LTA Identity Typeface - used by Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit[9]
- Metrolis – custom designed font for the 1995 rebranding of Metropolitano de Lisboa, designed by the Foundry (Freda Sack and David Quay)
- Metron – created in 1973 for Prague Metro by Jiří Rathouský
- Motorway – used for motorway route numbers in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland
- Myriad – used on Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway
- NPS Rawlinson – used by the United States National Park Service
- Parisine – used in the Paris Métro
- Pragmatica – used in the Saint Petersburg Metro since 2002; currently (2010—11) is being replaced by Freeset, Cyrillic variation of Frutiger
- Rail Alphabet – designed for British Rail in 1964 and still in use on parts of the UK rail network. Rail Alphabet is also still in use across the Danish rail network and its principle operator, DSB.
- Rotis Semi Sans - used by its own creator, Otl Aicher, for the Metro Bilbao corporate design.
- Rotis Serif – used on road signposts in Singapore.
- Sispos and Sisneg by Bo Berndal – old Swedish standard (SIS 030011, 1973) for public road signs, displays, etc.
- Toronto Subway Font – used by the Toronto Transit Commission in maps, publications, and most stations of the Toronto Subway and RT
- Trafikkalfabetet ("The traffic alphabet") – used for Norwegian road signs and license plates until 2002
- Transport – developed for the British roads, used in Italy, Portugal, Greece and other countries
- Tratex – used for road signs in Sweden
- Univers – used by the Montreal Metro, San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit, Frankfurt Airport and the Walt Disney World Resort road system
- Vejtavleskrift ("Road sign typeface") – used for road signs in Denmark[10]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ http://opentype.info/blog/2008/11/29/traffic-sign-typefaces-netherlands/ Site contains a lot of information on other signs and road typefaces too
- ^ Job, Nick. "London Gatwick Typeface". http://www.typophile.com/node/75855#comment-437451. Retrieved 18 April 2011. "[...] it's a typeface called Brunel and is used on the dozen-plus mainline stations on Network Rail that are not owned/operated by individual train operating companies (TOCs) [...] the typeface itself was designed by David Quay"
- ^ Quay, David. "London Gatwick Typeface". http://www.typophile.com/node/75855#comment-437608. Retrieved 18 April 2011. "I can confirm that it is Brunel which Freda Sack and I designed as an independent commission apart from The Foundry in 1997/8."
- ^ Kadri, Meena. "Disrupting Typographic Transit Norms". http://www.randomspecific.com/disrupting-typographic-transit-norms. Retrieved 18 April 2011. "Sanjeev Hajela, who had led the team which devised signage for the Delhi Metro [...] The English is Brunel (Positive)."
- ^ "4.5 Signage Typeface." FIP Manual. Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, n.d. Web. 17 Aug 2011. <http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/fip-pcim/man_4_5-eng.asp>.
- ^ http://www.baa.com/portal/page/VisualIdentity%5EUsing+the+identity%5EBAA+identity%5ECorporate%5ETypography%5EPrinted+literature/b234559547949010VgnVCM10000036821c0a____/448c6a4c7f1b0010VgnVCM200000357e120a____/
- ^ "Branding Guidelines". Amtrak. 2009-04-23. http://www.amtrakagentsupport.com/downloads/pdf/Amtrak-eBranding-v3.pdf. Retrieved 2012-03-07.
- ^ http://www.rfi.it/cms/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2e07ad846ea01210VgnVCM1000003f16f90aRCRD (Italian)
- ^ http://mic-ro.com/metro/files/LTAFont.pdf
- ^ http://www.trafikken.dk/wimpdoc.asp?page=document&objno=123041 (Danish) Q&A by the Danish road authority
[edit] External links
- Metro Fonts, Metro Bits - mic-ro.co(s)m
- Public domain fonts used on roadsigns
