Publisher: K-TypeK-Type TRANSPORTATION NEW has actually been improved and broadened:
- Various overview and spacing refinements
- Full enhance of Latin Extended-A characters
- Extra Italic typefaces for all three weights
K-Type's redrawing of the UK Transportation font style originally developed for British roadway signs by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert starting in 1957 and very first published on the Preston bypass in 1958.
In addition to the familiar Heavy and Medium weights, Transportation New restores the previously unreleased Lightweight font style, initially planned for back-lit signs but never actually applied.
.The beginning point for the typeface was Akzidenz Grotesk, the model modern-day sans which also offered a design for Helvetica and Univers. Some functions were imported from Johnston's Underground type-- the curled foot of the lowercase L and the pointed middle of the uppercase M for circumstances. Developed to eliminate confusion in between characters and increase legibility, they also assist to give Carry a British flavour.
.The original Transportation typeface has subtle eccentricities which add to its distinctiveness, and drawing the New version has included strolling an impertinent tightrope between removing awkwardness and maintaining quirkiness. Transportation New wouldn't be the first typeface to have actually violated the mark and gone bland.
.So, K-Type's version includes saucy however fragile improvements - shortening the uncomfortably close terminals of characters such as 5, 6, C, G, and e, embeding the protruding lower terminals of S and s, enhancing proportions by narrowing overly broad glyphs like the number 4, and somewhat opening up some claustrophobic counters. The question mark is made better, and parentheses are less chunky-- slimmer than letters and numbers. The x height is edged fractionally even taller. New characters such as the Euro symbol have actually been included, in addition to numerous accented characters for Welsh and continental European use.
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