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Contents. British Rail In 1949 the decided on standard types of signs to be used at all stations. Lettering was to use the typeface on a background of the regional colour. This style persisted for nearly 15 years. In the early 1960s, British Rail trialled new signs at Coventry station that made use of Kinnier and Calvert's recently launched Transport typeface. While Transport has since been an enduring success on road signs, it was designed around the specific needs of the roadside environment - such as visibility at speed and in all weathers.
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The subsequent creation of Rail Alphabet was intended to provide a style of lettering more specifically suited to the station environment, where it would primarily be viewed indoors by pedestrians. The included a new logo (the double arrow), a shortened name, and the total adoption of Rail Alphabet for all lettering other than printed matter including station signage, trackside signs, fixed notices, signs inside trains and train liveries. Key elements of the rebranding were still being used during much of the 1980s and Rail Alphabet was also used as part of the livery of ships until that company's privatisation in the late 1980s.
However, by the end of the 1980s, British Rail's various business units were developing their own with use of Rail Alphabet declining as a consequence. The typeface remained in near-universal use for signs at railway stations but began to be replaced with alternatives in other areas, such as in 's 1989 which made use of for much of their interior signage. Post British Rail The from 1994 accelerated the decline in use of the typeface on the railway network with most of the privatised who now manage individual stations choosing to use the fonts associated with their own corporate identities for station signs and publicity. More recently, the custom Brunel typeface introduced by for signs at major stations and adapted by Network Rail as was recommended as a new national standard for station signs by a 2009 report commissioned by the Secretary of State for Transport, and has since been adopted by South West Trains and East Midlands Trains.
Meanwhile, Helvetica Medium has replaced Rail Alphabet as the industry's preferred typeface for safety notices within passenger trains due to the ready availability of the former and for consistency with on general safety signs. Some of the privatised train operators, such as, and have continued to use the typeface for station signage and its use is still prescribed for trackside warning signs and safety/operating notices. Other uses The across England, Scotland and Wales adopted Rail Alphabet for its signs. It is still the dominant typeface used on signs in older hospitals. It ceased to be used in new builds in the late 1990s. The English NHS now uses, while uses Stone Sans.
Rail Alphabet was widely used on signs by the and by Danish railway company. New Rail Alphabet In 2009, a newly digitised version of the typeface was publicly released.
Created by Henrik Kubel of A2/SW/HK in close collaboration with Margaret Calvert, New Rail Alphabet features six weights: off white, white, light, medium, bold and black, with non-aligning numerals, corresponding italics and a set of Eastern European characters. See also. Retrieved 1 July 2010. Warminster & Westbury journal, and Wilts County Advertiser. Retrieved 13 February 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required ( help)).
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Overview A revival of the British ‘Rail Alphabet’ designed in the early sixties by Margaret Calvert of Kinneir Calvert & Associates. ‘Rail Alphabet’ was originally drawn as a constituent part of an integral signing system. The original alphabet, in the form of dyelines, was carefully traced and subtle adjustments made, including extended ascenders and descenders to aid legibility in smaller point sizes. Capital letters were thinned so they don’t spot out in running text. Ligning numerals made narrower and non aligning figures added to compliment the lowercase letters.
© 2009 Margaret Calvert & Henrik Kubel. New Rail Alphabet is a Trademark of A2-TYPE & A2.SW/HK Limited Related posts February 15th, 2018 January 25th, 2018 December 11th, 2017 October 25th, 2017 September 29th, 2017 Comments 9 May Margaret will you marry me? (I don’t think she will, but I love this typeface.) Leave a comment.