Transport New

What is the Transport New Font?

K-Type TRANSPORT NEW has been improved and expanded: • Numerous outline and spacing refinements • Full complement of Latin Extended-A characters • Additional Italic fonts for all three weights. K-Type’s redrawing of the UK Transport font originally designed for British road signs by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert beginning in 1957 and first published on the Preston bypass in 1958.. In addition to the familiar Heavy and Medium weights, Transport New revives the previously unreleased Light weight font, originally planned for back-lit signage but never actually applied.. The starting point for the typeface was Akzidenz Grotesk, the prototype modern sans which also provided a model for Helvetica and Univers. Some features were imported from Johnston’s Underground type – the curled foot of the lowercase L and the pointed middle of the uppercase M for instance. Designed to eliminate confusion between characters and increase legibility, they also help to give Transport a British flavour.. The original Transport font has subtle eccentricities which add to its distinctiveness, and drawing the New version has involved walking an impertinent tightrope between eliminating awkwardness and maintaining quirkiness. Transport New wouldn’t be the first typeface to have overstepped the mark and gone bland.. So, K-Type’s version includes cheeky but delicate refinements - shortening the uncomfortably close terminals of characters such as 5, 6, C, G, and e, tucking in the protruding lower terminals of S and s, improving proportions by narrowing overly wide glyphs like the number 4, and slightly opening up some claustrophobic counters. The question mark is made nicer, and parentheses are less chunky – slimmer than letters and numbers. The x height is edged fractionally even taller. New characters such as the Euro symbol have been added, along with many accented characters for Welsh and continental European use.

Transport New Font Families

When you download Transport New, the family will include the following font styles:

• Transport New Light
• Transport New Light Italic
• Transport New Medium
• Transport New Medium Italic
• Transport New Heavy
• Transport New Heavy Italic

Preview of the Transport New Font

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Who Designed the Transport New Font?

This font has 6 style(s) and was published by K-Type.

Is Transport New a Free Download?

Like all of the fonts listed here on The Font Bot, Transport New is a premium font and is not available to download for free.

Please do not try to find a free download of Transport New. If you really want this font for your new project, support the designer and the foundry and click here to purchase it officially.

I'm sure if you tried really hard, you could figure out how to download Transport New for free. You might also get a virus on your computer or get hacked as a result. Not to mention it is illegal to use Transport New if you did not pay for it.

How Much is Transport New to Buy?

If you've made it this far down the page and you are really interested to use Transport New for your new project, great!

The last time we checked the price for Transport New, it was available for as little as $20.00.