{"id":1808,"date":"2009-04-20T19:34:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T19:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/20\/the_new_rail_al\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T02:21:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T07:21:11","slug":"the_new_rail_al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/20\/the_new_rail_al\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Rail Alphabet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"723\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/New_Rail_Alphabet.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/New_Rail_Alphabet.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/New_Rail_Alphabet-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/New_Rail_Alphabet-768x555.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Available at last!<\/strong> Margaret Calvert and Henrik Kubel have released the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrailalphabet.co.uk\">New Rail Alphabet<\/a>, their gorgeous revival of Calvert&#8217;s classic design for British hospitals and transport networks in the 60s. As you can see, it&#8217;s like a Helvetica, but with a touch more warmth to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a <a title=\"Britain's signature\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eyemagazine.com\/feature.php?id=166&amp;fid=747\">feature about the design<\/a> in the latest issue of <i>Eye<\/i> magazine, in which the new typeface was called Britanica, but there were some lawyer-y concerns, and they <a title=\"Rue Britanica.\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.eyemagazine.com\/?p=189#more-189\">finally decided<\/a> to go with something a bit closer to the original name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Available at last! Margaret Calvert and Henrik Kubel have released the New Rail Alphabet, their gorgeous revival of Calvert&#8217;s classic design for British hospitals and transport networks in the 60s. As you can see, it&#8217;s like a Helvetica, but with a touch more warmth to it. There was a feature about the design in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/20\/the_new_rail_al\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The New Rail Alphabet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultratypographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71682,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/71682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}