Transport (字体)

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Transport 是首个设计用于英国交通标志的无衬线体字体。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。

## 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 (英国)), before their introduction on the (伦敦–约克郡) M1高速公路 (英国) 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 分数, 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 国际驾驶执照.

## 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 分数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 王室属地, 英国海外领土 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 波斯字母系统) are used, Transport is often used for Latin 字母转写s.
- 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 Dansk Vejtavleskrift.

In Indonesia, electronic 资讯可变标志 have used Transport since April 2014.

### 在道路交通标志使用Transport的国家

- 孟加拉
- 希腊 (包含希腊字母)
- 香港
- 冰岛
- 印度
- 印尼 (仅在资讯可变标志上使用)
- 伊朗
- 爱尔兰
- 意大利 (粗体版本为 Alfabeto Normale，另有字宽压缩版本，名为 Alfabeto Stretto)
- 科威特
- 马来西亚
- 马耳他
- 尼泊尔
- 新西兰（仅用于停车场标示）
- 阿曼
- 葡萄牙
- 卡达
- 新加坡（仅用于停车场标示）
- 西班牙 (其粗体版本称为 Carretera Convencional)
- 阿拉伯联合酋长国

## 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 2018 and 2 September 2018.

#### 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

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- A Scottish sign using the typeface on the 斯凯岛, with place names given in both 苏格兰盖尔语 and English, and distances shown in 英里s.

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- Example of the use of the typeface in road signs in Portugal

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- Irish road sign using special character forms for A, a, i, and capitals M and N, for Irish text

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- Use of Alfabeto Normale, as well as Alfabeto Stretto (top and bottom signs), in Italy

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- The typeface is in use on Icelandic road signs. This example shows the locations of villages and farms in a rural area of the country.

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- Use of the typeface within the Omani 飞地 of 马德哈, within the 阿拉伯联合酋长国. The 拉丁语字母 text has been translated from the 阿拉伯语, which is also shown.

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- Another example of the typeface in use in the Middle East, this time in Kuwait.

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- Use of the Transport font in 喀拉拉邦, India in both 马拉雅拉姆语 and English

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- The Transport font is used in several ex-British colonies, such as this one in 卡盖拉区, Tanzania

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- Latest street direction sign with Transport typeface in 旺角, Hong Kong

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- Gantry road sign with Transport typeface used in 马来西亚

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- Use of the typeface in Greece

## 参见

- Motorway (字体) — 用于高速公路的公路编号的字体，同样由Kinneir & Calvert设计。
- Rail Alphabet — 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 — 另一款广泛使用于全球的道路交通标志字体，由美国联邦高速公路管理局(FHWA)研发。
- DIN 1451 — 德国道路交通标志标准字体，部分国家亦有使用。

## 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

## 基本资料

- 日语原文：Transport
- 分类：哥特、Mixed、Signage
- 创造日期：1957-1963
- 域：

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