Semafor: Custom type family for the Hungarian Museum of Transport
About
We were commissioned by the Hungarian Museum of Transport (via Diller Scofidio + Renfro) to design a custom type family for them. The family consists of 8 loosely connected styles the sources of which were all found in a 1906 time table for trains that we stumbled upon in the museums collection.
Instead of straightforward revivals of historical typefaces, we opted for interpretations which retain the DNA of the designs but feel unmistakably contemporary.
Year
2021
Category
type design
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Client
Hungarian Museum of Science, Technology and Transport & Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Designers
Ákos Polgárdi (typographic direction, project management), Béla Frank (type design, sans), László Naske (type design, serif)
