#gerry barney

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British Rail logo by Gerry Barney (1964), the Imperial Airlines 'Speedbird' by Theyre Lee-Elliott (1932) and other BR designs proposed by the Design Research Unit

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British Rail, Gerry Barney, Design Research Unit, 1964.

“When you do a line of lettering with the characters the same height, the “o”s can look too small, so they’re always made a bit bigger. In the BR [British Rail] symbol, the lines aren’t all the same thickness: where the angled bars meet the horizontal ones they will appear thicker at the join, so they actually widen slightly going out. But that comes from lettering, where you have to pay attention to the counters; the spaces that are left, not the thing you’re drawing. They work together.” - Gerry Barney in “The untold story of the British Rail logo”. Read the full article here.

Images from the book “British Rail Design” by James Cousins, published by the Danish Design Council in 1986. Scans found here.