Transport (字体)

Transport 是首个设计用于的无衬线体字体。它由和从1957至1963设计，作为交通局Anderson和委员会设计师的工作。Design Museum — Jock Kinneir + Margaret Calvert , URL accessed 16 May 2006

 历史 

Before its introduction, British road signs used the capitals-only Llewellyn-Smith alphabet that was introduced following the Maybury Report of 1933 and revised in 1955–57. Older signs, known as s, tended to use a variety of 无衬线体 alphabets as supplied by their manufacturers. For the kinds of roads on which either of these alphabets was likely to be seen, legibility was not a pressing issue, but the planning and building of Britain's first 高速公路 in the 1950s was a catalyst for change.

The Ministry of Transport appointed an Advisory Committee on Traffic Signs for Motorways under the chairmanship of Sir Colin Anderson in 1957 and Jock Kinneir and his assistant Margaret Calvert were appointed as 平面设计ers to it. All aspects of signing were investigated and tested, initially on the 普雷斯顿 (兰开夏郡) bypass (1958, now part of the M6高速公路 (英國)), before their introduction on the (伦敦–約克郡) M1高速公路 (英國) a year later. The committee looked at examples from other European countries as well as the USA but Kinneir and Calvert found them somewhat harsh and unsatisfactory. Instead, they developed a more rounded typeface with distinctive tails to 'a', 't', and 'l', and bar-less 分數, all of which helped legibility.

The department, seeing the successful early results of this work then appointed another committee, under the chairmanship of Sir Walter Worboys and again using Kinneir and Calvert as designers, to look at Traffic Signs for All-Purpose Roads. Work for this also resulted in the introduction of the pictogram signs based on those recommended by the 國際駕駛執照.

 特征 

Two forms of the typeface exist: Transport Medium and Transport Heavy. Both have the same basic form, but Transport Heavy is , to allow easier readability of black letters on white backgrounds, such as those used on non-primary roads, while Transport Medium is lighter, and is used for white letters on dark backgrounds, such as the green primary-route signs.

The Transport fonts are the only ones allowed on UK road signs (except for motorway signs, where route numbers appear in their own separate typeface known as ).

Only a limited number of symbols are available in Transport, mainly those commonly used in road signs, such as 撇号s, the £ and certain 分數s such as ½ and ⅓. The original Transport fonts contained no 附加符号s, but since the publication of the 2016  includes 重音符s for use on .

 英国以外的道路交通标志 

Although developed for road signage in the United Kingdom, the typeface has seen use in the British government website and some government letters. It has also been used for road signage in many other countries around the world; in addition to the 王室屬地, 英國海外領土 and some limited residual usage in 英联邦, the typeface is also used in Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Greece (on non-motorway roads), Portugal, and in much of the Middle East, often with adaptations to include diacritics and other letters not used in English.
 Transport was expanded with the Greek alphabet to be used in Greece. In Greece and other such countries where non-拉丁字母 文字 (such as the 波斯字母系統) are used, Transport is often used for Latin 字母转写s.FAQ §3.6 Fonts on signs  from Chris's British Road Directory
  use 全部大写 Transport Heavy for English names. Irish names are set in mixed-case Transport Heavy 伪斜体 with modifications to certain letters - a is changed to a Ɑ, i (which was formerly ) has a curve on the bottom, and A, M and N are tall copies of their lowercase forms.
 Denmark uses a modification with added spacing and changes to the J and numerals, known as .

In Indonesia, electronic 資訊可變標誌 have used Transport since April 2014.Indonesia Transport Minister's Rule No. 13/2014 

 在道路交通标志使用Transport的国家 

 设计 

The original Transport family, with its two weights, has been digitised by .

 New Transport 

It is an updated and expanded version of the original typeface, been developed by Henrik Kubel of A2/SW/HK Limited and Margaret Calvert during 2012.

The original release includes six different weights (Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, Black) with complementary 伪斜体 stylings. It also has other features including 不齐线数字 and 小型大写字母. Semibold weight was added between 2 August 2018New Transport, Typeface (2019-08-29) and 2 September 2018.New Transport, Typeface (2019-09-02)

 GDS Transport 

It is a custom version of New Transport designed by New Transport designers, for use in the UK Government Digital Service web site (Gov.uk) in 2012, where it has been selected as the sole font for all text.

 Transport New 

An updated though unofficial family based upon Transport was first released by independent foundry K-Type in 2008. The family includes Light, Medium and Heavy weights along with true italics which were added in 2015.

 其他 

Jörg Hemker designed two typefaces that are inspired from the Transport typeface: FF Nort and FF Nort Headline. Both typefaces support Greek and Cyrillic.

 图库 

 参见 
  — 用于高速公路的公路编号的字体，同样由Kinneir & Calvert设计。
  — 用于英国铁路的类似字体，同样由Kinneir & Calvert设计。
 Johnston — 伦敦地铁字体，由Edward Johnston设计。

 联邦高速公路字体 — 北美变体，全球通用道路交通标志字体
 DIN 1451 — The German equivalent.

 参考文献 

 外部链接 
Traffic signs working drawings: TSRGD 2016 schedule 17 
World Transportation Organization The world transportation organization (The Non-Profit Advisory Organization)
 New Transport 
New Transport  – sale, history and .pdf specimen 
A2-TYPE page 

Category:英國道路運輸
Category:无衬线字体