If you ask an amateur font, self-proclaimed, person like me ‘what font should I use if I want something industrial, and minimalist’. You are very likely be told ‘DIN 1451’, the classic. I thought the same, but since I have always been obsessed with this specific type of sans-serif typefaces, Read more…
A recent browse of old files has reminded me of my long-overdue dream of having a neon light sign of Cho Kee – my dining brand (ok – just my kitchen). Neon still seems impossible so I have to explore other options. LED edge-lit light box came to my attention Read more…
Catching a train up the King’s Lynn line, and passing through a myriad of either retro-fit or real station signage, varying from the modern-day franchise standard signs to the Great Eastern Railways. The one that caught most of my attention was a ‘Hot Dog’ (pre-1960s) sign with ‘British Railways’ (BR) Read more…
Since I left my route map designing business and went to a more boring academic route, Canton Metro officials have decided to embark on the unreturnable road of atrocity. The official map has become even more complicated and less readable and inadequate for modern aesthetics. With the big gap in Read more…
Not particularly mean anything. Just want to create an illustration of some art-deco style.
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…
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…
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…
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…
