The Greene and Hollins typeface family in action, on some rather fun railway posters…
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Ringing the Changes
An enjoyable exercise in imagining the same poster with different typography, all drawn from the Greater Albion collection. We hope our readers enjoy looking through the results as much as we did creating them!
Steaming Through With Wellingborough
Here’s a short retrospective on our Wellingborough typeface family, using newly re-imagined early 20th century railway posters…
Display Hatched
We’re getting ready to dispatch three new releases in the next fe days. One of these is the Opentype feature Rich ‘Signwriter Standard’. Another is ‘Display Hatched’ designed as a complement to Signwriter Standard, but also a versatile display face in its own right, and previewed here for the first time. The third new release is … a surprise for the moment, having not been previewed as yet, and something of a design departure for Greater Albion, so watch this space.
Also waiting in the wings are Ledbury, Flinscher and Netherland Perpendicular, so a lot to look out for. In the meantime, here’s a first look at ‘Display Hatched’:
A Experimental Poster Design…
…using Magdalene Sans:
Diesel Days
Regular readers here will have seen previous poster designs in which the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway makes extensive use of Greater Albion’s “Stannard” typeface family. A rather appropriate choice in our opinion – Stannard having originally been inspired by the styles of lettering favoured by manufacturers of tinplate toy trains for their catalogues and box lids.
Here’s one of their latest posters, promoting their Diesel Gala in early June:
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Railway Posters Imagined
Here are two imaginary railway posters using the Thurbrooke typeface family…
Lanvier-Full Steam Ahead!
Our new Streamline era inspired typeface family, Lanvier, is nearing dispatch to our resellers. Here are some more test pieces, which continue the railway theme of our last two posts, though we seem to have left the Subcontinent.
