Download Gravesend Sans Font Family From Device
Download Gravesend Sans Font Family From Device Smart, legible and elegant, Gravesend Sans is a based on the unique typeface used for the iconic grass-green signage for the now-defunct Southern Railway. In existence from 1923 to 1948, when it was nationalised, it linked London with the Channel ports, South West England, the South coast resorts and Kent. The same design was also used for the ‘hawkeye’ signs on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, differentiated by black letters on a yellow background. Reference for each letter was taken from vintage ‘target’ station nameplates and other platform signage. The rarest letters were the Q, seen in Queens Road Battersea, the X, seen in East Brisxon, and the Z, used in Maze Hill, site of an infamous train crash in 1958. Being hand-made, the letters often differ in width and thickness. There was no lower case. The Bluebell Railway, a herit