GWR station signage

I produced these signs as part of a larger commission. They both were eventually fitted to the W H Smith bookstall (see Latest News). They were an interesting change from actual modeling as they were created from scratch by me using AutoCAD. Early on in the W H Smiths project I researched a suitable font to base these signs on but found nothing that was close enough. In the end, I spent some time drawing the font from scratch and have ended up with the whole alphabet and numbers. Thus it is a simple operation to reduce or enlarge depending on the prototype size and print off, creating any sign that was used on the Great Western system. As you can see from the photo above, I have also drawn the distinctive ‘pointing hand’. Drawing them myself has meant that the subtleties of the original have been faithfully reproduced, as no modern font could really do it justice.