=== BANKS & MILES DOUBLE LINE LIGHT ===

=== BANKS & MILES DOUBLE LINE (regular) ===

=== BANKS & MILES DOUBLE LINE DARK ===

=== BANKS & MILES SINGLE LINE (regular) ===

=== BANKS & MILES SINGLE LINE OBLIQUE ===
=== BANKS & MILES SINGLE LINE MEDIUM ===
=== BANKS & MILES SINGLE LINE MEDIUM OBLIQUE
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=== BANKS & MILES SINGLE LINE BOLD ===
=== BANKS & MILES SINGLE LINE BOLD OBLIQUE ===

Keith Bates, Banks & Miles

K-Type © 2018 (version 1.0)
www.k-type.com - info@k-type.com

K-Type’s ‘Banks & Miles’ fonts are inspired by the

geometric monoline lettering created for the British Post
Office in 1970 by London design company Banks & Miles, a
project initiated and supervised by partner John Miles, and
which included ‘Double Line’ and ‘Single Line’ alphabets.
The new digital typeface is a reworking and extension of
both alphabets.

Banks & Miles Double Line is provided in three weights –

Light, Regular and Dark – variations achieved by adjusting
the width of the inline.

Banks & Miles Single Line develops the less used

companion sans into a three weight family – Regular,
Medium and Bold – each with an optically corrected
oblique.

Although the ‘Banks & Miles Double Line’ and ‘Banks &
Miles Single Line’ fonts are based on the original Post
Office letterforms, glyphs have been drawn from scratch
and include numerous adjustments and impertinent
alterations, such as narrowing the overly wide Z and
shortening the leg of the K. Several disparities exist
between the Post Office Double and Single Line styles, and
K-Type has attempted to secure greater consistency
between the two. For instance, a wide apex on the Double
Line’s lowercase w is made pointed to match the uppercase
W and the Single Line’s W/w. Also, the gently sloping hook
of Single Line’s lowercase j is adopted for both families.
The original Single Line’s R and k, which were
incongruously simplified, are drawn in their more
remarkable Double Line forms, and whilst the new Single
Line fonts are modestly condensed where appropriate,
rounded letters retain the essentially circular form of the
Double Line.

Many characters that were not part of the original project,

such as @, ß, #, and currency symbols, have been
designed afresh, and a full set of Latin Extended-A
characters is included. The new fonts are a celebration of
distinctive features like the delightful teardrop-shaped bowl
of a,b,d,g,p and q, and a general level of elegance not
always achieved by inline typefaces.

The Post Office Double Line alphabet was used from the
early 1970s, in different colours to denote the various
parts of the Post Office business which included
telecommunications, counter services and the Royal Mail.
Even after the Post Office was split into separate
businesses in the 1980s, Post Office Counters and Royal
Mail continued use of the lettering, and a version can still
be seen within the Royal Mail cruciform logo.

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== Licence Information ==

Licence URL: http://www.k-type.com/licences

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== Installing Fonts ==

Fonts are placed in your operating system's Fonts folder

and will be made available to all the applications or
programs you use.

= Windows =
Put the .ttf or .otf font file into C:\Windows\Fonts, or right-
click on the font files > Install

= Mac =
Put the .ttf or .otf font file into /Library/Fonts

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