Shock discovery!
The typeface used in train stations is not Helvetica, I was fooled. It’s called Rail Alphabet and was done by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert who did Transport (which is brill BTW).
Rail Alphabet is similar, but not identical, to a bold weight of Helvetica (and, not quite as similar, Akzidenz Grotesk or Arial). Akzidenz Grotesk had earlier also provided the same designers the broad inspiration for the Transport typeface used for all road signs in the United Kingdom.
Posted on March 18th at 5:10pm
