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Roadline

An Elegant Way To Revive

The Streamline Style

Roadline is a professional display font collection of streamline style, a style of lettering that was much in vogue from the 30 to the 60. Roadline aligns all your characters on a horizontal baseline and allows headlines or logos into three wide variables. Besides its connectors allow you to create variations ranging from elegant classics to radicals or funny situations, adapting to all target tones of voice mes-sage, it brings Roadline a series of pre-programmed parts in Opentype links for easy use and enable very creative and unexpected combinations.

Roadline

Roadline

Roadline

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STYL IST IC ALTERNATES

CONTEXTUAL ALTERNATES

The stretching of words is because each character has three wide, only has a certain constant width punctuation signs as comma, period, semicolon, colon and ellipsis. If the tracking or letter spacing is increased we can see how each character works, and even create a different appearances with track-ing and angles. The natural angle of inclination of the letter is 10 degrees.

A Word

Word

Word

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STYL IST IC ALTERNATES

TRACK ING INCREASED

CONTEXTUAL ALTERNATES

Worda

10°

Roadline comes in three styles: "Roadline OT" is filled shapes, "Roadline Neon" have double line and "Roadline Paper" have a textured appearance. All these styles have the same OpenType features. You can layered styles to create effects.

Roadline R O A D L I N E O T

Roadline R O A D L I N E N E O N O T

Roadline R O A D L I N E P A P E R O T

The space between words in Roadline is a line that joins them, this line can be changed or canceled according to the active Opentype feature, you can even create spaces before and after a word to extend the line.

This is a line of text D E F A U LT

ThisisalineoftextF R A C T I O N S

ThisisalineoftextD I S C R E T I O N A R Y L I G AT U R E S

You can change the appearance of a word in many ways, Opentype function "Standard Ligatures (liga)" creates variations of the line if this is before or after a word by signs that are substituted by other decorative aspect. In this case the letter acquire legs.

.R..u..n..n..e..r. RunnerU S E O F P E R I O D ( . ) B E F O R E A N D A F T E R A L E T T E R

…J……u……m……p……e……r…Jumper

U S E O F E L L I P S I S ( … ) B E F O R E A N D A F T E R A L E T T E R

…C.…o.…m.…b.…i.…n.…e.…d.

C o m b i n e dC O M B I N E T H E O R D E R O F P E R I O D A N D E L L I P S I S

You can change the appearance of a word in many ways, Opentype function "Standard Ligatures (liga)" creates variations of the line if this is before or after a word by signs that are substituted by other decorative aspect. Also sustitutions of glyphs can produce tails.

W:o:r:d: W∞o∞r∞d∞ W∞o∞r∞d∞U S E O F C O L O N ( : ) A F T E R L E T T E R S

:W::o::r::d:

,Word,

±W∞±o∞±r∞±d∞U S E O F C O L O N ( : ) B E F O R E A N D A F T E R A L E T T E R

WordΩ WordΩ

Wordµ Wordµ

Word∑ Word∑

Word√ Word√

Wordπ Wordπ

Word∂ Word∂

O M E G A

S U M AT I O N R A D I C A L

P I P A R T I A L D I F F

M U

Word

You can change the appearance of a word in many ways, Opentype function "Swash (swh)" creates variations of the line if this is before or after a word by signs that are substituted by other decorative aspect. In this case ornaments.

U S E O F S E M I C O L O N ( , ) B E F O R E A N D A F T E R A L E T T E R O R W O R D

U S E O F O R D M A L A S C U L I N E ( º ) B E F O R E A N D A F T E R A L E T T E R O R W O R D

ºWordº Word≠ Word≠

,Word, Word WordU S E O F C O M M A ( , ) B E F O R E A N D A F T E R A L E T T E R O R W O R D

;Word; Word Word

You can change the appearance of a word in many ways, Opentype function "Swash (swh)" creates variations of the line if this is before or after a word by signs that are substituted by other decorative aspect. In this case ornaments.

U S E O F P E R I O D ( . ) B E F O R E A N D A F T E R A W O R D O R L E T T E R

U S E O F E L L I P S I S ( … ) B E F O R E A N D C O M M A ( , ) A F T E R A W O R D O R L E T T E R

.Word. Word Word

…Word, Word Word

U S E O F C O L O N ( : ) B E F O R E A N D A F T E R A W O R D O R L E T T E R

:Word: Word Word

You can change the appearance of a word in many ways, Opentype function "Titling Alternates (titl)" creates variations of the line if this is before or after a word by signs that are substituted by other decorative aspect. In this case ornaments.

,Word, Word WordU S E O F C O M M A ( , ) B E F O R E A N D A N D A F T E R A L E T T E R O R W O R D

U S E O F S E M I C O L O N ( ; ) B E F O R E A N D A F T E R A L E T T E R O R W O R D

U S E O F C O L O N ( : ) B E F O R E A N D A F T E R A L E T T E R O R W O R D

;Word; Word Word

:Word: Word Word

Words Words

You can change the appearance of a word in many ways, Opentype function "Titling Alternates (titl)" creates variations of the line if this is before or after a word by signs that are substituted by other decorative aspect. In this case ornaments.

U S E O F P E R I O D ( . ) B E F O R E A N D A F T E R A L E T T E R O R W O R D

U S E O F L O G I C A L N O T ( ¬ ) B E F O R E A N D A F T E R A L E T T E R O R W O R D

.Word. Word Word

¬Word¬ Word Word

U S E O F C O L O N ( : ) B E F O R E A N D A F T E R A L E T T E R O R W O R D > S W A S H + T I T L F E AT U R E

:Word: Word Word

You can change with the Opentype feature "Ordinal (ordn)" change the letter ‘a’ and ‘o’ when this let-ters are behind a number.

When the Opentype feature fraction (frac) is active the vehicles change direction from right to left.

V E H I C L E S C H A N G E D I R E C T I O N

S P A C E C H A N G E S T O D A S H E D L I N E S

T H E L E T T E R ‘ a ’ A N D ‘ o ’ C H A N G E T O O R D I N A L S W H E N I T A R E B E H I N D A N U M B E R

1a 2o 1ª 2º 1ª 2º

Ωπµ∂∑

∂ ∑

Ωπµ

Use Roadline typeface is only a matter of imagination, there are plenty glyphos and ways to combine them in order to create such an innovative lettering all in one font.

∏P∏u∏n∏k∏ Cat

A R T

∫∫∫Life∫Time∫∫∫

Swing ±±±±±± Nots ∞∞∞∞∞∞

∆∆∆∆Sewing∆∆∆∆∆ 123 Fish ∞

± ∫ ∞∆Box∆

Seville

Speedster

Douglas

Buick

Bluebird

∫ Galaxie ∫

Pontiac

Fairline

∫

You can combine two or more layers andtransparenciesto achieve otheroutcomes

This User Manual was setting in Roadline OT, Roadline Neon OT, Roadline Paper OT and Caracas Light.Roadline OT, Roadline Neon OT, Roadline Paper OT and Caracas are trademarks of John Moore Type Foundry.

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