Deutsche Bahn Sans
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Add type sampleCredits
- Designer(s)
- Christian Schwartz, Erik Spiekermann, Tal Leming
- Foundry(ies)
- None
- Release Year
- 2005
- Country of Origin
- Germany
- Classification
- Sans Serif, Humanist Sans
- Original Format
- Digital
- Distributor(s)
- exclusive
- Tags
- corporate type, railway, super-family
Background
Commissioned by United Designers (now edenspiekermann) for Deutsche Bahn AG. Not available for relicensing.
“Between 2003 and 2006 (possibly starting even earlier), United Designers undertook a major rebranding of Deutsche Bahn (DB), one of Europe’s largest companies. Print communication needed to be better coordinated, sub-brands needed to be better integrated, and a strategy for the future had to be mapped out, and a new type family was going to be a cornerstone of this.”
“The Sans will probably be the most commonly used part of the new family, so we had to make sure it could cover a very wide range of uses, including signage, schedules, advertising, and the free magazine on the train. We put a lot of softness into the italics to balance out some of the more mechanical forms in the romans, which become quite industrial and almost DIN-like as they get narrower.”
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