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The Subway Types

The Subway™ Types

by HVD Fonts
Individual Styles from $15.00 USD
Complete family of 7 fonts: $99.00 USD
The Subway Types Font Family was designed by Hannes von Döhren and published by HVD Fonts. The Subway Types contains 10 styles and family package options.

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About The Subway Types Font Family


The idea was to create a package containing prominent tag styles of graffiti strongholds like New York, Berlin and Paris. Shik (New York), Deon (Paris) and Etan (Berlin) came together to show the typical tag styles of their respective metropolitan areas. The fonts were digitized, spaced, kerned and programmed by Hannes von Döhren. The Subway Types are highly equipped. Each one consists of 4 alphabets (Uppercase, Lowercase, Small Caps & Swash). They also include ligatures and some specials like underlines and a huge range of accents for a wide language support. With the OpenType technology these features can be applied easily. For those who never used the OpenType features, we created the Std (Standard) and the SC (Small Caps) versions of the fonts. They contain the same basic characters like the OT versions but are split in two fonts. Hence you don’t need any OpenType knowledge to use the Std and SC fonts.

Designers: Hannes von Döhren

Publisher: HVD Fonts

Foundry: HVD Fonts

Design Owner: HVD Fonts

MyFonts debut: Oct 15, 2009

The Subway™ Types

About HVD Fonts

Hello! We are HvD Fonts. A type design studio creating curves, forms, systems & solutions – in other words: Typefaces. Started by Hannes von Döhren as a young graphic designer with a passion for letters, HvD evolved to an established type foundry working together with clients, agencies and experts. Using the act of creation itself, as our driving force, we have produced a balanced array of playful and professional typefaces, always underpinned by expert execution, including FF Mark, Pluto, Reklame Script or Brandon Grotesque. One principle of HvD is that we want to deliver fonts of the highest quality level: optically AND technically.In addition to creating self initiated typefaces, we worked on several bespoke type design projects for clients like Lufthansa, Volkswagen, Hyundai or Wal-Mart. Important or not, but good to mention: We received several design awards for our typefaces including the iF Award, the Red Dot Award or the Certificate of Excellence in Type Design from the Type Directors Club NY.

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