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Each font weight represents a unique typeface featured on TFL arrivals boards and rolling stock led announcement boards.\n\n## London Underground Regular\n\nThis typeface sets out to recreate the font used on dot matrix arrival boards found across London Underground stations in late-2019 / early-2020.\n\n![London Underground Regular Station Names](resources/examples/London-Underground-Regular-Station-Names.png)\n\n### Character Set Details\nThis font includes a full alpha character set (upper and lower cases), numbers, and symbols `- ' \u0026 * +`.\n\n![London Underground Regular](resources/examples/London-Underground-Regular.png)\n\n## London Underground Medium\n\nThis typeface sets out to recreate the dot matrix font found displayed on London Underground 1996 Stock.\n\n![London-Underground-Medium](resources/examples/London-Underground-Medium-Next-Station.png)\n\n### Character Set Details\nThis font includes a full alpha character set (upper and lower cases) and symbols `! ' , - . / : ; \u0026 \\`.\n\n![London-Underground-Medium](resources/examples/London-Underground-Medium.png)\n\n**NOTE: Unverified Characters!** This font currently includes 'best effort' characters due to a lack of reference materials for certain letters. Please contact me on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/petykowski_), or raise an issue on GitHub if you have photographs of these characters.\n* `F j q U V X Y Z`\n\n## London Underground Bold\n\n![London-Underground-Bold-Numbers](resources/examples/London-Underground-Bold-Numbers.png)\n\n### Character Set Details\nThis font only includes a full number set and symbols `:`.\n\n## London Underground Heavy\n\nThis typeface sets out to recreate the font used on dot matrix arrival boards found across London DLR stations in late-2019 / early-2020.\n\n![London-Underground-Heavy-Station-Names](resources/examples/London-Underground-Heavy-Station-Names.png)\n\n### Character Set Details\nThis font includes a full alpha character set (upper and lower cases), numbers, and symbols `- ' , * ()`.\n\n![London Underground Heavy](resources/examples/London-Underground-Heavy.png)\n\n## Reference\n\nLondon Underground Regular, Bold, and Heavy is sourced from original photographs of dot matrix arrival boards found across London Underground stations during late-2019 / early-2020.\n\nThe following photographs are an example of the particular dot matrix style which was referenced in the typeface creation.\n\n![London-Underground-Arrival-Board](resources/examples/London-Underground-Arrival-Board.jpeg)\n\n![DLR-Arrival-Board](resources/examples/DLR-Arrival-Board.jpeg)\n\nLondon Underground Medium is sourced from video recordings found on YouTube. Attributes as follows:\n* [Tony - Transit \u0026 Games](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgeEbnxA5A2M30JRgfLiYMw)\n* [X2K9](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpcsaVmps-Q)\n* [Random Transport](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G5eaNuZYDc)\n* [Mongchong 123](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdS9RxWD6is) (_Thanks [@robhagemans](https://github.com/robhagemans)_)\n\n![Random Transport](resources/examples/London-Underground-Jubilee-Line.png)\n\n## Contribute\n\n#### Build Additional Characters to Existing Typeface\nFrom Adobe Illustrator template file:\n1. Build New Character\n   - Add new artboard\n   - Provide name of character for layer and artboard\n   - Build character on separate layer\n2. File \u003e Export \u003e Export As...\n2. Export Artboards as SVG\n   - Choose Export location\n   - Format: SVG (svg)\n   - Use Artboards Checked\n   - All Artboards Selected\n   - Maintain default SVG options\n\n#### Add Characters to Existing Typeface\nOpen .sdf file in FontForge\n1. Select character to update\n2. File \u003e Import\n3. Set width to width of character + 100\n   - If svg width is 600 then set element width to 700\n\n#### Generate Font\n1. File \u003e Generate Fonts\n   - Maintain default export values\n2. Save into `font` directory of repo \n\n## License\n\nThis typeface is distributed with an [SIL Open Font License](http://scripts.sil.org/OFL).","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fpetykowski%2FLondon-Underground-Dot-Matrix-Typeface","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fpetykowski%2FLondon-Underground-Dot-Matrix-Typeface","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fpetykowski%2FLondon-Underground-Dot-Matrix-Typeface/lists"}