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Gill Sans on the British Railways trains.

As you might suspect when you are creating a retrospective railway signage using Gill Sans, why would the British Railways (BR) signage looks so different from the one you’ve made, so much more elegant. The typeface on it feels like Gill Sans, also doesn’t look identical to the Gill Sans Read more…

By Fourthbus, 3 weeks3 weeks ago
Canton

Redesigning Canton Rail Transit map

Since I left alone my route map designing business. The official map designers have decided to disgust all its users. The map is tedious inadequate for modern aesthetics. Luckily, by some chance, I have again the time to re-instate the design. The new map uses traditional Chinese characterister-style as those Read more…

By Fourthbus, 9 months3 months ago
Fobytype Design

‘Yellow Object’

Not particularly mean anything. Just want to create an illustration of some art-deco style.

By Fourthbus, 1 year3 months ago
Fobytype Design

You want some nice posters on your wall but your mind detours

The original poster found online looks like this, nothing wrong. A very typical Post WWI style, some sort of art-deco. Nice looking Gill Sans-ish typeface – admittedly at that time nothing was standardised, maybe is a badly made Gill Sans. So, what if it comes to modern days? Firstly 3% Read more…

By Fourthbus, 1 year1 year ago
Fobytype Design

Boaring DIY

By Fourthbus, 2 years1 year ago
CoTrans Transport

InterCity APT – the Imperial’s curtain call on the track

The new IEP (Intercity Express Project – Hitachi) and Class 700 (Siemens) was blamed since their first mile on the British track, dodgy quality, horrible internal decoration, and most importantly, the on-board passenger iron-board (thanks for their generous) seats. However, apart from the vital failure and flooding complaints, multi-million pound Read more…

By Fourthbus, 2 years2 years ago
Fobytype Design

Restoring classics

Stories Once upon a time, I was amazed by typeface using on Britain’s railway signages (yes, same as what I did with TB1). The numbering typeface comes to my attention, attracting me with its British humanity style… At that time, I was very sure it is possible that this font Read more…

By Fourthbus, 3 years3 years ago
Fobytype Design

Chinese number plate font prototype

p.s. Some explanations on Chinese Numberplate structure. First Chinese character stands for the registration province, following by letter usually A-Z (can be less), denotes registration city (e.g. ‘粤A’ is the code for the provincial city of Guangdong Province, a.k.a. Canton (or Guangzhou)). Last five digits and letters are some random number Read more…

By Fourthbus, 3 years3 years ago
Fobytype Design

Digitalisation of Chinese Number Plate Font

While CR Font in progress, I’m happy to announce the beginning of another project: Chinese Number Plate. As the design of new number plates revealed last year, it has drawn to concern that this version of numberplates may come to terminate. It’s an excellent chance to start digitalising it. This Read more…

By Fourthbus, 3 years3 years ago
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