Bureausign font
Bureausign is Bureau Gorbunov’s wayfinding font. It will be available to everyone for licensing and commercial use.
Bureausign is a variable sans‑serif font for signage and wayfinding, featuring humanistic forms and a hint of physical materials. The family consists of six basic combinations of weight and proportions while the glyphs include icons and a number plates constructor.
Airports
Bureausign is a great option for airport wayfinding. The font is highly legible and has a characteristic plasticity, as if the letters were made of bent plastic tubes. Bureausign competes with such wayfinding fonts as Frutiger, Meta, and Wayfinding Sans.
Airports
Bureausign is a great option for airport wayfinding. The font is highly legible and has a characteristic plasticity, as if the letters were made of bent plastic tubes. Bureausign competes with such wayfinding fonts as Frutiger, Meta, and Wayfinding Sans.
Road signs
Bureausign allows for the fine adjustment of saturation, proportions, and letter spacing. This helps achieve greater legibility on road sign texts.
Variability
Bureausign is a variable font made by interpolation. It comes with four extreme faces: Light, Bold, Condensed Light, and Condensed Bold. There is also a range of interim options in between. The user can pick a face just a bit lighter than Regular or just a smidge wider than Condensed. This flexibility allows you to adjust the font for a particular project with a single font family.
In inverted signs, the text is light and the background is dark. The same font face looks differently depending on whether the background of the sign is light or dark. Light characters seem brighter when displayed with a dark background, so they look a bit thicker than they should. To eliminate that effect, the reverse printed text has to be compensated for by making it a little bit lighter. This is often just done by using a lighter font face, but the difference between regular and light font faces is too obvious.
With Bureausign, users decide how light they would like the letters to be.
With Bureausign, users decide how light they would like the letters to be.
With Bureausign, users decide how light they would like the letters to be.
Glyphs legibility
With Bureausign being a wayfinding font, it’s important for characters like I, l, and 1 to be distinguishable from a great distance away. By default, the font has generous tracking.
Icons
Bureausign comes with icons for a variety of wayfinding tasks. Not only are they balanced out by their visual weight—they also account for the purpose and meaning of an icon, i. e. a pedestrian is smaller than an escalator. Furthermore, the icons are adjusted in proportion and size to differ from the text labels.
Icons
Bureausign comes with icons for a variety of wayfinding tasks. Not only are they balanced out by their visual weight—they also account for the purpose and meaning of an icon, i. e. a pedestrian is smaller than an escalator. Furthermore, the icons are adjusted in proportion and size to differ from the text labels.
In user interface
Although Bureausign was designed as a wayfinding font, it includes user interface icons as well.
Plates constructor
To put a number in a box or a circle, just enable discretionary ligatures.
{3}→❸
[54]→[54]
(20)→
<9>→➒
Plates constructor
To put a number in a box or a circle, just enable discretionary ligatures.
{3}→❸
[54]→[54]
(20)→
<9>→➒
Plates constructor
To put a number in a box or a circle, just enable discretionary ligatures.
{3}→❸
[54]→[54]
(20)→
<9>→➒
Bureausign brought about “icon ligatures”, where a staircase or escalator are combined with arrows into a single pictogram.
⇵↑=⇈
⇕↓=⇓
Bureausign brought about “icon ligatures”, where a staircase or escalator are combined with arrows into a single pictogram.
⇵↑=⇈
⇕↓=⇓
Bureausign brought about “icon ligatures”, where a staircase or escalator are combined with arrows into a single pictogram.
⇵↑=⇈
⇕↓=⇓
Try
Bureausign being a variable font, it can feature an infinite number of faces. Try these nine basic styles.
Supported languages
Беларускі
BelarusianБългарски
BulgarianCatalà
CatalanČeština
Czech
Dansk
DanishDeutsch
GermanEesti keel
EstonianEnglish
Español
Spanish
Filipino
FilipinoFrançais
FrenchFrysk
FrisianHrvatski
Croatian
Íslenska
IcelandicItaliano
ItalianҚазақ тілі
KazakhLatviešu
LatvianLietuvių
Lithuanian
Magyar
HungarianМакедонски
MacedonianNorsk
Norwegian
Polski
PolishPortuguês
PortugueseРусский
Russian
Slovenščina
SlovenianСрпски/Srpski
SerbianSuomi
FinnishSvenska
SwedishУкраїнська
Ukrainian
Беларускі
BelarusianБългарски
BulgarianCatalà
CatalanČeština
CzechDansk
DanishDeutsch
GermanEesti keel
EstonianEnglish
Español
SpanishFilipino
FilipinoFrançais
FrenchFrysk
FrisianHrvatski
CroatianÍslenska
IcelandicItaliano
Italian
Қазақ тілі
KazakhLatviešu
LatvianLietuvių
LithuanianMagyar
HungarianМакедонски
MacedonianNorsk
NorwegianPolski
PolishPortuguês
PortugueseРусский
RussianSlovenščina
SlovenianСрпски/Srpski
SerbianSuomi
FinnishSvenska
SwedishУкраїнська
Ukrainian
Numbers
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About the project
If you’re interested in using Bureausign for wayfinding in an urban, transport, educational, or medical facility, send us a message: hey@bureau.rocks
Artem Gorbunov
Anna Danilova
Vladimir Kolpakov