#margaretcalvert

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125 BPM—And some new shapes ♨️ @lebenliebegrafik @toomanydesign @puretypography

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🕐🕑🕒🕓🕔🕕🕖🕗🕘🕙🕚🕛🕜🕝🕞🕟🕠🕡🕢🕣🕤🕥🕦🕧 Christmas presents are on the way! Did some Shirts together with @arasnilesi(idea) and @julianb_julianb (screen print) in a very limited edition, friends only🎄 • Typeface in use: MBI-TRAFFIC (Digitalized Bootleg of Margaret Calverts ABC) Illustration: Found in an old book about Comic Characters

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30 year Design Museum anniversary sign by Margaret Calvert

[ameliabruggenblog]

Margaret Calvert

Margaret Calvert is known as "the mother of modern-day information design". She is known for designing the Transport font used on road signs and the Rail Alphabet font used on the British railway system. Her work is very minimalistic, normally using no more than three different colours. I find that this helps the legibility of her signage, as it's important that her work is universally legible and they can be clearly depicted. Although we don't tend to take much notice of the signage we see on a day to day basis Calvert's designs are very bold and have a unique style.

Calvert and Kinnier's Rail Alphabet font is based on the font 'Helvetica'. This font is sans-serif and is suitable for it's purpose as it is bold, clear and easy to read. Calvert and Kinneir's typeface on the designs contains a mix of upper and lower-case letters, helping people recognise words faster than if they were written in only capital letters. There are three basic design shapes of road signs, each with different shapes: circles, rectangles and triangles. The circle signs are used for signs that give orders, the rectangles are for signs that give information and the triangles are used for signs that warn you about something. This simple, consistent language helps the public easily comprehend the information they are viewing, thus making their purpose fulfilled. However, there are also some other shapes used, such as the hexagon and the upside down triangle.

[mayflolikes]

Margaret Calvert: It's about knowing who you are designing for

Margaret Calvert is a graphic designer famously known for her design of road signs and typefaces, including the font Calvert. At AGI Open London 2013 she tel...

Learning about driving theory. This lady is cool.

[workovereasy-blog]

I didn’t get round to share this yesterday but a post just went up on my blog about the story behind the design of Britain’s road signs and the work of one of my favourite designers Margaret Calvert . Read it at www.workovereasy.com #margaretcalvert #roadsigns #design #servicedesign #designer #humancentereddesign #designinspo #quote #quotes #inspiration #inspirationalquotes #britishdesign

[standarddesigns]

Much though I love Albertus (below), the Transport font (above) says The Barbican to me much more, especially when layered with London grime #typography #london #barbican #signage #signs #jockkinneir #margaretcalvert #albertus #wolpe #city #concrete #photography #1970s #1980s (at Barbican Centre)

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🔺🔵 #signdesign #jockkinneir #margaretcalvert