A monochromatic photo of an old New York City subway station.

Interborough

Making connections

Culture
Romanesque
Type Design
2018

A self-initiated typeface based on the signage and architecture of New York City’s old Romanesque-influenced subway stations.

The words "Interborough Rapid Transit" on a flat blue background. The words show all of the diacritic characters included in the typeface.
City Hall stop on the historic Interborough Rapid Transit line. You can see the structural inspiration for the typeface in the architecture.
A crop of various words showing ligatures and other typographic features.
The full character set of the typeface.
Various ligatures from the typeface are shown on a flat blue background.
Team
Lukas Abubeker
Client
Self-Initiated
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