RAIL

Summary

Rail’s design was based on lettering found on historical German railroad signage and Herbert Bayer’s explorations into a universal typeface during the 1930s. Bauhaus inspiration shows itself most prominently in the cropped crossbars of lowercase f and t.

A vast array of weights from rail thin to extra bold affords fine-tune control over color, legibility, and style. Rail 000, the font family’s lightest weight, remains rail thin even at 1000pt. Rail Headline, a variation on the family’s heaviest weight, comes with built-in Swiss-style letterspacing, perfect for big, bold headlines.

The font family’s global structure was carefully considered from the onset of design to ensure metric consistency across all glyphs. When strokes end in Rail, they end in the same place, which means terminals align to each other perfectly.

Rail's extended Latin glyph set supports Western European language typesetting, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Danish, Icelandic, and Pig Latin.