CPH Tram
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A seven-weight revival of the hand-painted destination lettering used on Copenhagen trams around 1920.
About
Drawn from original hand-painted tram destination signs dating to around 1920, the family carries the irregular warmth of signpainting into a usable digital grotesque. Seven weights run from Light to Black with no italics, keeping the range focused and suited to display and wayfinding contexts. The source material gives it a character distinct from constructed grotesques of the same era.
Classification
A revival of early 20th-century Danish tram signage lettering, the hand-painted origins give it a humanist grotesque quality rather than a mechanically precise construction.
Weights
LightRegularMediumSemiboldBoldExtra BoldBlack
Languages
Latin
Tags
revivalsignagedanishgrotesquehumanistdisplayheritagewayfinding