Graphic designer Margaret Calvert has created a customised typeface named Rail Alphabet 2, which will be used for station signage across the UK.
Designed for Network Rail, the typeface is an update of Calvert's original Rail Alphabet typeface from the 1960s and was designed together with Henrik Kubel of A2-TYPE.
It will be used by Network Rail in conjunction with a wayfinding system designed by consultancy Spaceagency, which features new symbols including a wifi sign.
Top: Rail Alphabet 2 will be used for station signage in the UK. Above: Calvert designed the typeface as an update of her Rail Alphabet The original Rail Alphabet typeface was designed by Calvert and Jock Kinneir in the mid-Sixties and used for signage in stations, as well as for railway-related material.
"The starting point [for Rail Alphabet 2] shares the same DNA as the original Rail Alphabet, designed for use in all British Rail stations, before British Rail was privatised," Calvert told Dezeen.
"Rail Alphabet 2 belongs to the same family, but is different in that it has been specifically designed as a customised face for Network Rail, to be read by passengers in a pedestrian context, unlike the road signs."
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