Roadline User Guide
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 message, it brings Roadline a series of pre-programmed parts in Opentype links for easy use and enable very creative and unexpected combinations.
Roadline D E F A U LT
Roadline S T Y L I S T I C A LT E R N AT E S
Roadline C O N T E X T U A L A LT E R N AT E S
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 tracking and angles. The natural angle of inclination of the letter is 10 degrees. TRACKING INCREASED
A
Word
A
Word
A
Word
D E F A U LT
S T Y L I S T I C A LT E R N AT E S
C O N T E X T U A L A LT E R N AT E S
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Word
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 ROADLINE OT
Roadline ROADLINE NEON OT
Roadline ROADLINE PAPER OT
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
This is a line of text FRACTIONS
This is a line of text DISCRETIONARY LIGATURES
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.
R u n n e r
USE OF PERIOD (.) BEFORE AND AFTER A LETTER
…J……u……m……p……e……r… USE OF ELLIPSIS (…) BEFORE AND AFTER A LETTER
J u m p e r …C.…o.…m.…b.…i.…n.…e.…d. COMBINE THE ORDER OF PERIOD AND ELLIPSIS
C o m b i n e d
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∞
,Word, Word
USE OF COLON (:) AFTER LETTERS
:W::o::r::d: ±W∞±o∞±r∞±d∞ USE OF COLON (:) BEFORE AND AFTER A LETTER
OMEGA
Ω
WordΩ PI
π
Wordπ SUMATION
∑
Word∑
MU
Word
Wordµ PARTIALDIFF
Word
∂
Word∂ RADICAL
Word
µ
Word√
√
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.
,Word,
Word
Word
USE OF COMMA(,) BEFORE AND AFTER A LETTER OR WORD
;Word;
Word
Word
USE OF SEMICOLON(,) BEFORE AND AFTER A LETTER OR WORD
ºWordº
Word≠
Word≠
USE OF ORDMAL ASCULINE (º) BEFORE AND AFTER A LETTER OR 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.
:Word:
Word
Word
USE OF COLON(:) BEFORE AND AFTER A WORD OR LETTER
.Word.
Word
Word
USE OF PERIOD (.) BEFORE AND AFTER A WORD OR LETTER
‌Word,
Word
Word
USE OF ELLIPSIS (‌) BEFORE AND COMMA (,) AFTER A WORD OR LETTER
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
Word
USE OF COMMA(,) BEFORE AND AND AFTER A LETTER OR WORD
;Word;
Word
Word
USE OF SEMICOLON(;) BEFORE AND AFTER A LETTER OR WORD
:Word:
Word
Word
USE OF COLON(:) BEFORE AND AFTER A LETTER OR WORD
W o r d s
W o r d s
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
Word
USE OF COLON(:) BEFORE AND AFTER A LETTER OR WORD > SWASH + TITL FEATURE
.Word.
Word
Word
USE OF PERIOD (.) BEFORE AND AFTER A LETTER OR WORD
ÂŹWordÂŹ
Word USE OF LOGICALNOT (ÂŹ) BEFORE AND AFTER A LETTER OR WORD
Word
You can change with the Opentype feature "Ordinal (ordn)" change the letter ‘a’ and ‘o’ when this letters are behind a number.
1a 2o
1ª 2º
1ª 2º
THE LETTER ‘a’ AND ‘o’ CHANGE TO ORDINALS WHEN IT ARE BEHIND A NUMBER
When the Opentype feature fraction (frac) is active the vehicles change direction from right to left.
Ωπµ∂∑ VEHICLES CHANGE DIRECTION
Ωπµ SPACE CHANGES TO DASHED LINES
∂
∑
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.
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C a t
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¹¹¹¹¹¹ Nots ∞∞∞∞∞∞
∆∆∆∆Sewing∆∆∆∆∆
1 2 3
Fish ∞
A R T
∆Box∆
âˆŤâˆŤâˆŤLife âˆŤ TimeâˆŤâˆŤâˆŤ
Âą
âˆŤ
∞
Fairline
Seville Douglas
Bluebird
Speedster
Pontiac
Buick
∫ Galaxie ∫ ∫
You can combine two or more layers and transparencies to achieve other outcomes
©Copyright John Moore 2013 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.