https://github.com/petykowski/London-Underground-Dot-Matrix-Typeface

A set of dot matrix fonts in the style of TfL's Underground arrivals board.
https://github.com/petykowski/London-Underground-Dot-Matrix-Typeface

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A set of dot matrix fonts in the style of TfL's Underground arrivals board.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/petykowski/London-Underground-Dot-Matrix-Typeface
• Owner: petykowski
• Created: 2020-01-04T16:37:15.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-04-19T21:53:44.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-10T14:24:20.391Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: dlr, font, london, tfl, underground
• Homepage:
• Size: 25 MB
• Stars: 1,525
• Watchers: 8
• Forks: 20
• Open Issues: 3
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
# London TFL Dot Matrix Typeface

A set of dot matrix fonts in the style of TFL's Underground network. Each font weight represents a unique typeface featured on TFL arrivals boards and rolling stock led announcement boards.

## London Underground Regular

This typeface sets out to recreate the font used on dot matrix arrival boards found across London Underground stations in late-2019 / early-2020.

![London Underground Regular Station Names](resources/examples/London-Underground-Regular-Station-Names.png)

### Character Set Details

This font includes a full alpha character set (upper and lower cases), numbers, and symbols `- ' & * +`.

![London Underground Regular](resources/examples/London-Underground-Regular.png)

## London Underground Medium

This typeface sets out to recreate the dot matrix font found displayed on London Underground 1996 Stock.

![London-Underground-Medium](resources/examples/London-Underground-Medium-Next-Station.png)

### Character Set Details

This font includes a full alpha character set (upper and lower cases) and symbols `! ' , - . / : ; & \`.

![London-Underground-Medium](resources/examples/London-Underground-Medium.png)

**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.

* `F j q U V X Y Z`

## London Underground Bold

![London-Underground-Bold-Numbers](resources/examples/London-Underground-Bold-Numbers.png)

### Character Set Details

This font only includes a full number set and symbols `:`.

## London Underground Heavy

This typeface sets out to recreate the font used on dot matrix arrival boards found across London DLR stations in late-2019 / early-2020.

![London-Underground-Heavy-Station-Names](resources/examples/London-Underground-Heavy-Station-Names.png)

### Character Set Details

This font includes a full alpha character set (upper and lower cases), numbers, and symbols `- ' , * ()`.

![London Underground Heavy](resources/examples/London-Underground-Heavy.png)

## Reference

London 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.

The following photographs are an example of the particular dot matrix style which was referenced in the typeface creation.

![London-Underground-Arrival-Board](resources/examples/London-Underground-Arrival-Board.jpeg)

![DLR-Arrival-Board](resources/examples/DLR-Arrival-Board.jpeg)

London Underground Medium is sourced from video recordings found on YouTube. Attributes as follows:

* [Tony - Transit & Games](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgeEbnxA5A2M30JRgfLiYMw)

* [X2K9](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpcsaVmps-Q)

* [Random Transport](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G5eaNuZYDc)

* [Mongchong 123](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdS9RxWD6is) (_Thanks [@robhagemans](https://github.com/robhagemans)_)

![Random Transport](resources/examples/London-Underground-Jubilee-Line.png)

## Contribute

#### Build Additional Characters to Existing Typeface

From Adobe Illustrator template file:

1. Build New Character

   - Add new artboard

   - Provide name of character for layer and artboard

   - Build character on separate layer

2. File > Export > Export As...

2. Export Artboards as SVG

   - Choose Export location

   - Format: SVG (svg)

   - Use Artboards Checked

   - All Artboards Selected

   - Maintain default SVG options

#### Add Characters to Existing Typeface

Open .sdf file in FontForge

1. Select character to update

2. File > Import

3. Set width to width of character + 100

   - If svg width is 600 then set element width to 700

#### Generate Font

1. File > Generate Fonts

   - Maintain default export values

2. Save into `font` directory of repo 

## License

This typeface is distributed with an [SIL Open Font License](http://scripts.sil.org/OFL).