NR Brunel
Humanist sans-serif typeface
Category | Sans-serif |
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Designer(s) | The Foundry |
Commissioned by |
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Date released | 2000s |
Characters | 210 |
License | Proprietary |
Trademark | Network Rail |
Sample | |
Shown here | NR Brunel - Regular weight |
The NR Brunel typeface is the Network Rail standard for signing at Network Rail managed stations.[1]
This font is an evolution of the Brunel typeface designed by a specialist typeface design company, The Foundry, for Railtrack[2] in 1999 and adopted initially by Network Rail.[3]
It was recommended as a new national standard for station signs in a 2009 report commissioned by the Secretary of State for Transport,[4] and was adopted by South West Trains and East Midlands Trains for their station signage.
Beginning in 2023, the typeface is due to be phased out as new rail operator Great British Railways reintroduces an updated version of Rail Alphabet as part of its systemwide rebranding.[5]
See also
- Rail Alphabet
References
- ^ "Way Finding". Network Rail. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ^ "David Quay Design". David Quay Design. David Quay. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ^ "Managed Stations Wayfinding". Network Rail Design Guidelines & Specifications: 10. 1 August 2011. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ^ "Better rail stations" (PDF). November 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 November 2009. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
- ^ "Great British Railways: Williams-Shapps plan for rail". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- Great Western
- Bristol and Exeter
- Bristol and Gloucester
- Bristol and South Wales Union
- Cheltenham and Great Western Union
- Cornwall
- Dartmouth and Torbay
- East Somerset
- Great Western and Brentford
- Llynvi Valley
- Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton
- South Devon
- South Devon and Tavistock
- South Wales
- South Wales Mineral
- Taff Vale
- Vale of Neath
- West Cornwall
- West Somerset
- Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth
- Angarrack viaduct
- Avon Bridge
- Bath:St James's Bridge; Skew Bridge; St James' Viaduct
- Bishop's Bridge
- Chepstow Bridge
- Chippenham viaduct
- Clifton Suspension Bridge
- Cornwall Railway viaducts
- Cumberland Basin swing bridges
- "Devil's Bridge", Uphill
- Gatehampton Railway Bridge
- Hungerford Bridge
- Landore Viaduct
- Loughor Viaduct
- Maidenhead Bridge
- Moulsford Railway Bridge
- Royal Albert Bridge
- Somerset Bridge
- Three Bridges, London
- Usk Bridge
- Wharncliffe Viaduct
- Windsor Bridge
- Great Western Steamship Company
- SS Great Western
- SS Great Britain
- SS Great Eastern
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern (1857 photograph)
- SS Archimedes borrowed by Brunel, used for propeller tests
- Brentford Dock
- Bristol Harbour
- Cumberland Basin
- Underfall Yard
- Millbay Docks
- Westport Canal
- Atmospheric railway
- Balloon flange girder
- Baulk road
- Broad gauge
- Brook House, Steventon
- Crew's Hole tar works
- Crystal Palace water towers
- Great Exhibition (Brunel on committee)
- Malmaison Hotel, Reading
- Renkioi Hospital
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- Institution of Civil Engineers (VP from 1850)
- Abraham-Louis Breguet (trained Brunel)
- Robert Pearson Brereton (Chief assistant)
- Marc Isambard Brunel (father)
- Sophia Kingdom (mother)
- Lindsey House (childhood home)
- University of Caen Normandy
- Lycée Henri-IV
- Henry Marc Brunel (second son)
- Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream (picture commissioned by Brunel)
- Brunel Manor (commissioned by Brunel for his retirement)
- Sarah Guppy, whose portrait was painted by Brunel
- Kensal Green Cemetery
- Statues of Brunel
- Brunel Museum
- Being Brunel
- Broad gauge running line
- Blue plaque, 98 Cheyne Walk
- List of Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks (SS Great Britain #97)
- Brunel University London
- NR Brunel (Network Rail typeface)
- Brunel Award
- 100 Greatest Britons (Brunel #2)
- Two Brunel £2 coins in 2006
- 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony featured Brunel
- Brunel (opera project)
• Other works of Brunel