🎉 A new thing I made — Citywide, a sans serif typeface inspired by mid-1900s bus roll signs.
It has some real charm, feeling both informal and buttoned up in the same breath. It’s still a work in progress, but already a large family of widths and weights, plus italics.
Read more about Citywide and bus roll signs, and grab a license: https://shop.jasonsantamaria.com/products/citywide
Citywide’s letterforms draw from a bus roll sign I found at a flea market years ago. I’ve probably lost myself staring at that sign everyday since, thinking about how the type system works while trying to puzzle out some of the unusual choices.
I love the little inconsistencies in proportions and strokes across widths, as well as its desire to be unambiguous, large, and legible from a distance.
I originally used this inspiration as a subject to teach myself how to use font making programs. My first run at it a couple years ago was pretty rudimentary, my second was a bit better.
Citywide is my third iteration on the idea, and one I felt good enough about to release. I’m happy with the current milestone, and would love to keep adding to it: lowercase, and maybe more widths and weights.
I hope you enjoy it too ✌️
@jasonsantamaria HELL YEAH
*HELL* YEAH JASON
@jonhicks I think so! Pricing is a puzzle to me, but I mostly just wanted people to use it 😂
Thank you, sir!
@jasonsantamaria That bus roll sign you got is fab! I’m fascinated by them - always wanted one, and when I saw a local one on eBay last year I had to buy it. Visions of hanging it in my tall stairwell. Not sure on the date but I love the typography and the destinations are where I grew up.
Unfortunately the thing is *huge* and slightly too wide for the wall on the stair too! I really don’t want to cut it so I’m trying to find another spot for it even if it has to go on the ceiling 😁
@jasonsantamaria Oh that’s cool! I don’t think mine has a seam but I’ll double check.
I’m now down an internet rabbit hole trying to pinpoint the age of it by looking at old city bus photos - I’m wondering if I might be able to find out the route number and then work out the age 🤔 Look at these beauties! #BusDetective #NewcastleUponTyne
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