List of traffic documents
Special fonts are used in the signage for orientation in public space . They usually make high demands on the legibility of the text information. Some of these fonts are only used for historical reasons or to create identity. Areas of application are signage in guidance and orientation systems, e.g. B. in road traffic.
list
- Akzidenz-Grotesk - station signs in Switzerland until 1981
- ASTRA-Frutiger - road signage in Switzerland since 2003
- Austria - official standard in Austria until 2010
- Brunel - for signage on British Rail
- Brusseline - for signposting in Brussels' local transport
- Calvert - developed for Tyne and Wear Metro by Margaret Calvert
- Casey - developed for the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation
- Clearview - as used by the US Federal Highway Administration
- DIN 1451 - Standard fonts for technology and traffic, Chapter 1451-2 "Traffic fonts" for street signs
- Deutsche Bahn WLS - for signage at Deutsche Bahn
- Drogowskaz - on Polish signposts
- Esseltub - formerly used at the Stockholm Tunnelbanan
- FF Meta - used by the Stockholm Tunnelbana
- Frutiger - local transport in Oslo , Norway , Austrian Federal Railways , Dutch State Railways and used in English health centers
- FHWA Series fonts - developed for US road signage, also used in Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Spain and the Netherlands
- Futura - today for station signs of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (bold) and for technical lettering of Trenitalia (narrow bold) , from the 1950s to 1986 in a variant for station signs of the DB
- Gill Sans - with British Railways since 1965
- Helvetica - used on the Swiss Federal Railways , the New York City Subway , the Chicago Transit Authority System, and the Madrid Metro ; formerly also with DB , ÖBB , Hong Kong's MTR and Stockholm Metro
- Johnston - used for transport to London ( Transport for London )
- Metron - created in 1973 for Metro Prague by Jiří Rathouský
- Myriad - used on Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway
- NPS Rawlinson , used by the United States National Park Service
- Parisine - in use by Métro Paris
- Rail Alphabet - created for British Rail in 1964
- Rotis Serif - used in the Singaporean Mass Rapid Transit and traffic signs
- Sispos and Sisneg by Bo Berndal - identified in the old Swedish standard SIS 030011 (1973) for public signage
- SNV - road signage in Belgium, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, former Yugoslavia. Replaced in Switzerland by ASTRA-Frutiger in 2003 .
- Tern - EU project currently deployed in Austria
- Toronto Subway - by the Toronto Transit Commission used underground
- Trafikkalfabetet ("Verkehrsalphabet") - until 2002 in Norway for traffic signs and license plates
- Transport - for UK road signage, also used in Italy, Portugal, Spain and other countries
- Tratex - for traffic signs in Sweden
- Univers - used by SNCF (until 2005), SNCB , Montreal Metro , Bay Area Rapid Transit San Francisco, Frankfurt Airport and the transport network of Walt Disney World Resorts
- Vialog - by Erik Faulhaber , used as the corporate font for the Munich Transport Company and for lettering according to the Latin alphabet on Japanese traffic signs.
See also
literature
- Fachhochschule Düsseldorf, Department of Design (Ed.): Font and identity: The design of signs in public transport . Niggli Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7212-0820-7
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ BART Wayfinding: The Shotgun Technique . ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. typographi.com
- ↑ Signage system font Vialog goes Japan . In: PAGE online . September 12, 2014 ( page-online.de [accessed December 1, 2017]).
