Bradshaw’s Guide: Three sections down, one to go
230 lines and branches, 89 railway companies, 966 towns and cities, 118 counties and regions. And counting.
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Back to Bradshaw’s
Having copied, pasted and formatted another 115 pages of OCR’d text, Bradshaw’s Guide now contains tours throughout South West England, the West Midlands, Wales and Ireland.
What I want from a web font
Bradshaw’s Guide brings George Bradshaw’s 1866 descriptive railway handbook to the web. Today I’ll cover some of the typographic decisions I made, and how they lead me to believe that we still lack the necessary tools for web typography.
(Re)introducing Bradshaw’s Guide
Based on the 1866 edition of George Bradshaw’s handbook for tourists using Britain’s nascent railway network, my latest project puts his historical insights into the hands of a new generation, many of whom use the same routes he described 150 years ago.