Truro Typeface Design

On a site visit to the Museum and the city, we were drawn to the street signs that we observed throughout Truro. The names of these streets refer to past associations: Castle Street, River Street, Duke Street, Edward Street, Kenwyn Street, St Dominic Street. And for us the design of these signs, their production, materiality and the hand lettering was a point of inspiration.

Following on from extensive research throughout the city, the found letterforms were mapped and rationalised to create a full set. Where letters were missing these were created through a process of “close relations”. Drawing on these related qualities enabled us to develop a full set of glyphs for Truro including a limited range of punctuation marks.