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Given that British Rail had a keen interest in developing a new and cohesive corporate identity, the balance of probabilities also strongly favours it, rather than the NHS, being the typeface’s first customer. I’m willing to be proved wrong, however. British Rail essentially gifted Rail Alphabet to others, enhancing the typeface’s reputation. It makes for an interesting contrast with the practice of London Transport (now Transport for London), which has jealously guarded its specially created Johnston/New Johnston typefaces since their creation, ensuring that they have never spread beyond London (or carefully licensed books and souvenirs). It’s actually London Transport’s model that is the most emulated today, with post-privatisation railway infrastructure operator Network Rail restricting use of its bespoke Brunel typeface (inherited from its predecessor Railtrack and developed for signage at the major stations it manages) to the British railway industry.

Years later, this debt would be acknowledged in the preface to a book about British Rail’s design work, which was published by the Danish Design Council and featured a foreword by Jens Nielsen, Director of Design, Danish State Railways (Cousins, 1986: p2). However, the place most British people would have seen Rail Alphabet outside British Rail was at the country’s public hospitals, where it was used on directional signage. It’s no great surprise: both British Rail and the National Health Service were large public sector organisations, both operated large public buildings with complicated layouts, and both needed a typeface which would work well on signage directing the public around their premises. It did mean, however, that if you were in a hospital and presented with directional signage, there was a subconscious feeling that you might be about to miss a train.

It did mean, however, that if you were in a hospital and presented with directional signage, there was a subconscious feeling that you might be about to miss a train. Vice versa, presented with directional signage at a railway station, you could sometimes get the queasy feeling that you were about to undergo an unpleasant medical procedure. It seems to have spread as far as hospitals in Denmark, because I’m pretty sure that the sign in is in Rail Alphabet too (though it might be Helvetica in a bold weight). At this point, an element of confusion creeps in. I’ve several times seen it stated that Rail Alphabet was developed by Calvert and Kinnear from the typeface used for the NHS (for instance in Jackson, 2013: p100 or Garfield, 2010: p158). However, other sources put the direction of movement the other way round, and Calvert gave the distinct impression that Rail Alphabet was created for British Rail, when interviewed for the.

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Vice versa, presented with directional signage at a railway station, you could sometimes get the queasy feeling that you were about to undergo an unpleasant medical procedure. It seems to have spread as far as hospitals in Denmark, because I’m pretty sure that the sign in is in Rail Alphabet too (though it might be Helvetica in a bold weight). At this point, an element of confusion creeps in. I’ve several times seen it stated that Rail Alphabet was developed by Calvert and Kinnear from the typeface used for the NHS (for instance in Jackson, 2013: p100 or Garfield, 2010: p158). However, other sources put the direction of movement the other way round, and Calvert gave the distinct impression that Rail Alphabet was created for British Rail, when interviewed for the. Given that British Rail had a keen interest in developing a new and cohesive corporate identity, the balance of probabilities also strongly favours it, rather than the NHS, being the typeface’s first customer. I’m willing to be proved wrong, however.

Calvert described it as “low-key”, intended to stand out from the commercial signage at stations which was more flamboyant. “It’s ordinary,” she said. “People think nobody designed it, because it’s ordinary.”¹ Rail Alphabet is all about the message, not the medium. It is designed with simplicity in mind, to give information without the character of the lettering distracting from or overwhelming the message being conveyed.

Network SouthEast’s only non-Rail Alphabet signage at station or on trains was on the route badges applied to trains (a “Kent Link” badge is applied to the train on the left). Photo by Daniel Wright [] via Outside the railway, the other users of Rail Alphabet eventually adopted different typefaces.

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Given the insipid brand identities of several train operating franchises on Britain’s railway network today, it’s quite possible that the Rail Alphabet train numbers are the best-designed things to be seen there. It’s a testament to the quality of Calvert and Kinneir’s work that years since the rest of British Rail’s rail blue corporate identity has vanished, Rail Alphabet soldiers on, doing what it does, as well as it does. If you’ve never noticed their work before – because they never really intended you to notice it – hopefully you’ll never look at a train number the same way again.

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The English NHS now uses, while uses Stone Sans. Rail Alphabet was widely used on signs by the and by Danish railway company. New Rail Alphabet [ ] In 2009, a newly digitised version of the typeface was publicly released. Created by Henrik Kubel of A2/SW/HK in close collaboration with Margaret Calvert, New Rail Alphabet features six weights: off white, white, light, medium, bold and black, with non-aligning numerals, corresponding italics and a set of Eastern European characters.

Photo by Daniel Wright [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0] The privatisation of the rail network saw a bewildering array of new typefaces introduced to the national railway network. While Network Rail’s ongoing ownership of its major stations means that Brunel has been around for a while now, other typefaces have come and gone at stations and on trains as train operating franchises have changed hands. I’ve lost count of the number of typefaces that have been seen on the East Coast Main Line intercity services as various operators have tried to make a go of that unlucky franchise. It was suggested in 2009’s Better Rail Stations report by Chris Green (inventor of Network SouthEast and all-round modern railway management genius) and Professor Sir Peter Hall for the Department for Transport that Brunel should be adopted as a standard typeface for signage at British railway stations. It would therefore do the job Rail Alphabet had once done; a suggestion to which the DfT cheerfully paid no heed whatsoever. I think only South West Trains has adopted Brunel on its station signage (like Network Rail’s in white text on a dark blue background). The genie is well and truly out of the bottle and the chances of getting Britain’s railway operators to agree on a single typeface for use at stations now seem pretty slim.

The typeface remained in near-universal use for signs at railway stations but began to be replaced with alternatives in other areas, such as in 's 1989 which made use of for much of their interior signage. Post British Rail [ ] The from 1994 accelerated the decline in use of the typeface on the railway network with most of the privatised who now manage individual stations choosing to use the fonts associated with their own corporate identities for station signs and publicity. More recently, the custom Brunel typeface introduced by for signs at major stations and adapted by Network Rail as was recommended as a new national standard for station signs by a 2009 report commissioned by the Secretary of State for Transport, and has since been adopted by South West Trains and East Midlands Trains. Meanwhile, Helvetica Medium has replaced Rail Alphabet as the industry's preferred typeface for safety notices within passenger trains due to the ready availability of the former and for consistency with on general safety signs. Some of the privatised train operators, such as, and have continued to use the typeface for station signage and its use is still prescribed for trackside warning signs and safety/operating notices. Other uses [ ] The in England, Scotland and Wales adopted Rail Alphabet for its signs.

New Rail Alphabet is a revival of the British Rail alphabet designed by Margaret Calvert of Kinneir Calvert Associates in the early Sixties. Originally drawn in two versions, as a constituent part of an integral signing system, it first appeared in the United Kingdom’s National Health hospitals and, subsequently, British Rail and Danish Rail stations, followed by all BAA Airports. Now produced in six weights, Off White, White, Light, Medium, Bold and Black, with non-aligning numerals, corresponding italics, and a subset of Eastern European characters.

The mix of upper and lower case text was definitely easier to take in than the bossy all-upper case Gill Sans it replaced. As such it was the perfect typeface for British Rail, which was at the time trying to project a new image of low-key, straightforward competence, at some remove from its previous reputation for scandalous financial mismanagement and a confused strategic vision. The full version of, along with the tiling system that allowed the letters to be correctly spaced in relation to each other – a key concern given that signs were quite likely to be put together by hand; these were the days before everyone had access to desktop computers with installed fonts.

It’s a testament to the quality of Calvert and Kinneir’s work that years since the rest of British Rail’s rail blue corporate identity has vanished, Rail Alphabet soldiers on, doing what it does, as well as it does. If you’ve never noticed their work before – because they never really intended you to notice it – hopefully you’ll never look at a train number the same way again. Bibliography and further reading Boocock, Colin (2000): Railway Liveries: BR Traction 1948-1995. Ian Allen: Shepperton Cousins, James (1986): British Rail Design. Danish Design Council: Copenhagen Garfield, Simon (2010): Just My Type. Profile Books: London Green, Chris and Hall, Professor Sir Peter (2009): Better Rail Stations. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office: London.

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Meanwhile, a condensed (narrow) rectangular font served for train numbers on many locomotives. And I’m afraid I can’t think of any word other than ‘ugly’ for that one. Rail Alphabet was the answer to these challenges. It was a mixed upper and lower case typeface, instantly looking more friendly than Gill Sans.

It was designed to wipe out the existing hotchpotch of styles and motifs which had graphically illustrated the confused nature of the business from its creation in 1948 until that point. British Railways (as it was publicly known until 1966) even had multiple typefaces in use on its signage and its trains. Most frequently seen was Gill Sans, a chilly all-upper case typeface dating from before the second world war and inherited from the London and North Eastern Railway (). This bossy and sometimes difficult typeface seemed increasingly out of place in the more informal 1960s, as longstanding social norms were challenged or abandoned.

I don’t know if I can post links here, but I found a web saying that while the standards say that signs should use Rail Alphabet, for a long time there was no computerised version available, so the only practical option was to ask for the signs to be produced in Helvetica Bold.

I don’t know if I can post links here, but I found a web saying that while the standards say that signs should use Rail Alphabet, for a long time there was no computerised version available, so the only practical option was to ask for the signs to be produced in Helvetica Bold. Kms auto activator windows 8.1.

I’m sure it’s very clever, and I don’t doubt it has many fans, but to me it just looks like bubble writing. I’m not an expert in fonts, but I’m pretty sure “Stop, Look, Listen” is in Helvetica Bold.

Meanwhile, Helvetica Medium has replaced Rail Alphabet as the industry's preferred typeface for safety notices within passenger trains due to the ready availability of the former and for consistency with on general safety signs. Some of the privatised train operators, such as, and have continued to use the typeface for station signage and its use is still prescribed for trackside warning signs and safety/operating notices. Other uses [ ] The in England, Scotland and Wales adopted Rail Alphabet for its signs. It is still the dominant typeface used on signs in older hospitals.

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The Helvetica “a” is very different in bold to the regular weight and looks very much like the Rail Alphabet “a”. The main difference is that in Helvetica the stroke thickness varies, and so far as I can see that’s the case here. And, as mentioned above, the “2” is curved and the “f”‘s don’t look flattened. I don’t know if I can post links here, but I found a web saying that while the standards say that signs should use Rail Alphabet, for a long time there was no computerised version available, so the only practical option was to ask for the signs to be produced in Helvetica Bold.