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Transport
样式无衬线
分类Grotesque
Mixed
Signage
设计师祈年雅英语Jock Kinneir
贾慧慈英语Margaret Calvert
创造日期1963
范例
A road sign written mainly in Transport Heavy; the white on blue text is Transport Medium.

Transport是一套用于交通标志的无衬线字体,由祈年雅英语Jock Kinneir贾慧慈英语Margaret Calvert[1]设计。



联邦高速公路字体(英语:Highway Gothic),或称为高速公路标识标准字母(英语:Standard Alphabets for Highway Signs),是一套无衬线字体,由美国交通部下属的联邦高速公路管理局(FHWA)开发,并被用于美国以及加拿大土耳其墨西哥澳大利亚西班牙委内瑞拉荷兰巴西智利中华人民共和国中华民国马来西亚印度尼西亚泰国蒙古国厄瓜多尔新西兰等地的道路标志,在沙特阿拉伯也有部分使用。这款字设计初衷是能在一定距离和高速的条件下最大限度地保证易认性。其他版本,比如 Highway Gothic 以及面对公众出售的 Interstate 带有设计成方形的句号;官方标识上的标点是圆形。

is a sans serif typeface first designed for road signs in the United Kingdom. It was created between 1957 and 1963 by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert as part of their work as designers for the Department of Transport's Anderson and Worboys committees.[2][3]

History

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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 fingerposts, tended to use a variety of sans serif 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 motorway 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 graphic designers to it. All aspects of signing were investigated and tested, initially on the Preston bypass (1958, now part of the M6 motorway), before their introduction on the (LondonYorkshire) M1 motorway 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 fractions, 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 1949 United Nations World Conference on Road and Motor Transport.

Characteristics

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Two forms of the typeface exist; Transport Medium and Transport Heavy.[4] Both have the same basic form, but Transport Heavy is boldface, 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 typefaces are the only ones allowed on UK road signs (except for motorway signs, where route numbers appear in their own separate typeface known as Motorway).[5]

Only a limited number of symbols are available in Transport, mainly those commonly used in road signs, such as apostrophes, the pound sign and certain vulgar fractions such as ½ and ⅓.[6] Various diacritics are also available, for use in languages other than English, such as Welsh and Irish.

Other uses around the world

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Although developed in the United Kingdom, the typeface has been used in many other countries around the world. In addition to the Crown dependencies, British overseas territories and some limited residual usage in Commonwealth states, the typeface is also used in Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Greece, and Portugal, and in much of the Middle East. Denmark uses a variation with added spacing and modified figures. Italy and Spain use bolder variants, called Alfabeto Normale in Italy and Carretera Convencional in Spain (the latter originally only on non-motorway roads, but since 2014 it applies to any new sign both in motorway and non-motorway roads).

In countries where other scripts (such as the Arabic script) are used, Transport is often used for Latin transliterations.[2][7] Road signs in the Republic of Ireland use all-caps Transport Heavy for English names; for Irish names, mixed-case Transport Heavy oblique is used with variants for A, a, i, M and N: script a, dotless i, and tall versions of m and n.

In Indonesia, since April 2014, changeable message signs/electronic signs have used Transport.[8]

The Clearview font is a variant of Transport that is currently used mainly on North American highway signs.

Digitisations

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The original Transport family, with its two weights, has been digitised by URW++.[4]

New Transport

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An updated version of the typeface has been developed by Henrik Kubel of A2/SW/HK and Margaret Calvert during 2012, with the family expanded to include six different weights (Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, Black) with oblique stylings to complement them. It also has other features including text figures and small capitals.[9]

One of its first public uses has been on the UK's revamped central government website, 'GOV.UK', where it has been selected as the sole font for all text.[10]

Transport New

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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.[11]

Users

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  • Greece - Road signs (Greek letters added)
  • Hong Kong - Road signs
  • Ireland
  • Italy - Road signs
  • Indonesia - Variable message signs
  • Malaysia - Road signs
  • Portugal - Road signs
  • Spain - Road signs
  • United Kingdom - Road signs, government website and some government letters
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See also

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References

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  1. ^ 邱益彰@道路研究社. 《香港道路探索──路牌標誌x交通設計》 第二版. 非凡出版. 2019年7月: 页12. ISBN 9789888573370. 
  2. ^ 2.0 2.1 Design Museum — Jock Kinneir + Margaret Calvert, URL accessed 16 May 2006
  3. ^ Calvert, Margaret. New Transport. A2-Type. [1 March 2016]. 
  4. ^ 4.0 4.1 Transport. MyFonts. URW++. [1 March 2016]. 
  5. ^ See Regulation 13 and Schedule 13 of The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2002 (legislation.gov.uk)
  6. ^ Chris's British Road Directory, URL accessed 5 September 2017
  7. ^ FAQ §3.6 Fonts on signs from Chris's British Road Directory
  8. ^ Indonesia Transport Minister's Rule No. 13/2014 互联网档案馆存档,存档日期6 October 2014.
  9. ^ New Transport. New Transport. [19 June 2017]. 
  10. ^ A few notes on typography. GOV.UK. [19 June 2017]. 
  11. ^ Transport New. K-Type. [17 June 2017]. 
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