: Indian Railway car fonts - available for the web? I'm in love with the fonts used on the sides of Indian Railway cars. Is this just a hand-painted Gill Sans, or is this a custom font?

@Annie732

Looks a lot like Granby, and that may in fact be what the original was based on. But it's definitely hand-painted. English Grotesque has a lot of the hand-painted-ness if you wanted a deliberately wonky font in this style, although it's a bit wider than this.

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@Ravi4787994

most of them resemble Johnston Sans (London Underground's font), which inspired other classics such as Gill and the closer match, Granby.

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@Turnbaugh909

Photographing from an oblique angle doesn't make identification very easy! Everything except the C looks like Avant Garde:



However it might also be based on Futura:



It's almost certainly hand-painted, and the signwriter has done a good job of providing a no-nonsense sans for this application.

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