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The Beauty of Transport

Transport design, transport architecture, and transport's influence on art and culture. Part travelogue, part history, all transport (but sometimes tangentially so)

Category: fonts / typefaces

December 22, 2025December 23, 2025

Union Flag Blues: the Branding of Great British Railways

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July 23, 2025July 24, 2025

A Change of Course – Honing Network Rail’s Wayfinding Guidance

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November 27, 2024November 7, 2025

Never(?) Decreasing Circles (Railtrack/Network Rail major station logos, UK (continued))

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November 3, 2021November 8, 2021

How Serifs Lost the Road War but Won the Streets

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May 26, 2021May 25, 2021

The Return of Rail Alphabet (Network Rail Wayfinding Signage and Rail Alphabet 2, part 2)

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May 19, 2021May 20, 2021

The Way Forward (Network Rail Wayfinding Signage and Rail Alphabet 2, part 1)

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April 29, 2020April 29, 2020

When 2 Become 1 (Tyne Pedestrian and Cyclist Tunnels, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)

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January 29, 2020January 29, 2020

Unblocking the Bottleneck (Reading Station, Reading, UK)

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July 25, 2018July 25, 2018

White on Black and Read All Over: New York City Subway Signage and Other Design Highlights (New York (NY), USA)

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November 29, 2017November 29, 2017

Red Hot (Virgin Trains East Coast branding 2015 – )

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October 18, 2017October 18, 2017

Parisine: Paris = Johnston: London (Parisine typeface by Jean Francois Porchez)

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October 4, 2017October 2, 2017

Look, Listen, Smell (Deutsche Bahn corporate identity 2004 – )

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August 16, 2017August 15, 2017

Crimson Tide (National Express West Midlands visual identity 2015- )

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August 9, 2017August 7, 2017

Britain in the World? No thanks (British Airways’ 1997 corporate identity by Newell and Sorrell)

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April 19, 2017November 3, 2017

M is for… Metro (Calvert typeface and the Nexus Tyne and Wear public transport visual identity)

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March 1, 2017December 1, 2017

Local Heroes (PTE mainline rail visual identities 1970-1994)

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January 6, 2016January 4, 2016

Travels with my Father (Johnston typeface, Edward Johnston)

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September 16, 2015September 12, 2015

Type in the Fast Lane (FHWA Series typeface, USA)

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August 12, 2015August 12, 2015

Papering Over the Cracks (Railtrack’s Corporate Graphic Design and Annual Reports, UK)

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May 13, 2015October 26, 2019

On Line Typeface (Rail Alphabet typeface, Margaret Calvert/Jock Kinneir, UK)

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December 3, 2014October 26, 2019

Sign Languages (Transport and Ministry typefaces, UK)

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