CT 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…
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…
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…
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…