London Underground Dot Matrix Typeface

A set of dot matrix fonts in the style of TFL's Underground network. Each font weight represents a unique typeface featured on TFL arrivals boards and rolling stock led announcement boards.

This typeface sets out to recreate the font used on dot matrix arrival boards found across London Underground stations in late-2019 / early-2020.

This font includes a full alpha character set (upper and lower cases), numbers, and symbols - ' & * +.

This typeface sets out to recreate the dot matrix font found displayed on London Underground 1996 Stock.

This font includes a full alpha character set (upper and lower cases) and symbols ! ' , - . / : ; & .

NOTE: Unverified Characters! This font currently includes 'best effort' characters due to a lack of reference materials for certain letters. Please contact me on Twitter, or raise an issue on GitHub if you have photographs of these characters.

• F j q U V X Y Z

This font only includes a full number set and symbols :.

This typeface sets out to recreate the font used on dot matrix arrival boards found across London DLR stations in late-2019 / early-2020.

This font includes a full alpha character set (upper and lower cases), numbers, and symbols - ' , * ().

London Underground Regular, Bold, and Heavy is sourced from original photographs of dot matrix arrival boards found across London Underground stations during late-2019 / early-2020.

The following photographs are an example of the particular dot matrix style which was referenced in the typeface creation.

London Underground Medium is sourced from video recordings found on YouTube. Attributes as follows:

• Tony - Transit & Games
• X2K9
• Random Transport
• Mongchong 123 (Thanks @robhagemans)

From Adobe Illustrator template file:

1. Build New Character
   • Add new artboard
   • Provide name of character for layer and artboard
   • Build character on separate layer
2. File > Export > Export As...
3. Export Artboards as SVG
   • Choose Export location
   • Format: SVG (svg)
   • Use Artboards Checked
   • All Artboards Selected
   • Maintain default SVG options

Open .sdf file in FontForge

1. Select character to update
2. File > Import
3. Set width to width of character + 100
   • If svg width is 600 then set element width to 700

1. File > Generate Fonts
   • Maintain default export values
2. Save into font directory of repo

This typeface is distributed with an SIL Open Font License.