Airport
Gold
Excellent Communications Design
Typography

Details
Airport is an interpretation of Matthew Carter’s alphabet for London Airport. The original was drawn in 1961 for the wayfinding system in the newly built Oceanic Terminal, today known as Heathrow Terminal 3. The digital reimagination expands Carter’s design to seven weights and optimizes it for contemporary use. Airport supports a large number of Latin-based languages and includes numerous extras like alternates, arrows, and circled and squared glyphs. An additional variant, Airport X, with a lower x-height, was also developed, which is better suited for texts in smaller font sizes.