Sometime in the early 1990s our principle designer released a freeware typeface family called Birmingham, inspired by some hand drawn lettering appearing on a 1911 map published by the London and North Western Railway. The map was headed “Birmingham and Environs”. Over the years the Birmingham typeface family prospered appearing as a downloadable set of fonts on numerous websites, in the titles of at least one television show, as well as on props used in several others and as part of the cover design on an impressively large number of books.
That said, when we look at the Birmingham designs we think we could do it so much better now…so that’s what we’ve set about. Here’s a sampling of the original Birmingham Regular alongside the soon to be released “Birmingham New Street”.
We hope you enjoy our little before and after demonstration!
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