City | Font Name | Designer | Year | Sample | Availability | Reference |
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Amsterdam | M.O.L. | Gerard Unger | 1974 |  | | gerardunger.com |
Berlin | U8 | Alfred Grenander architectural office | 1923 |  | korkork.com, fatype.com | buchstabenmuseum.de on site, theguardian.com |
Berlin | Transit (based on Frutiger) | Erik Spiekermann, Lucas de Groot, Henning Krause | 1991 |  | fontshop.com | typophile.com |
Brussels | Brusseline | Eric de Berranger | 2006 |  | | de-berranger.club.fr, de-berranger.club.fr (PDF) |
Dubai | TransportDubai | Dalton Maag | 2008 |  | | transportdesign.com, designweek.co.uk |
Hong Kong | Casey (based on Tahoma and Frutiger) | Dalton Maag | 1996 |  | i-circle.net (registration required) | wikipedia.org |
Lisbon | Metrolis | Michael Barbosa, Freda Sack, David Quay | 1995 |  | | identifont.com, typophile.com |
London | Johnston | Edward Johnston | 1916 |  | myfonts.com, p22.com | TfL fonts, wikipedia.org |
Mexico City | Tipo Metro | Lance Wyman | 1969 |  | haroldsfonts.com (rough lookalike) | Lance Wyman via email, hablamosjuntos.org |
Moscow | Moscow Sans | Henrik Kubel, Scott Williams | 2015 |  | | eyemagazine.com, atissuejournal.com |
Munich | Vialog | Werner Schneider, Helmut Ness | 2002 |  | linotype.com | typophile.com, typeforum.de |
New York | Mosaic fonts (in several variations) 1 | G. C. Heins, C. G. La Farge, S. J. Vickers | 1901 |  | haroldsfonts.com, myfonts.com | Stookey, Lee: Subway Ceramics. 1992. nysubwaymosaics.com |
Newcastle | Calvert | Margaret Calvert | 1980 |  | linotype.com, identifont.com | designmuseum.org, wikipedia.org |
Paris | Metropolitain (in six variations) | Hector Guimard | 1901 |  | myfonts.com, myfonts.com, dafont.com | Descouturelle, Frédéric; et. al.: Le métropolitain d'Hector Guimard. Somogy 2003. |
Paris | Nord-Sud (ceramic tiles font, lines 12 and 13) | Unknown designer at either Nord-Sud metro company or Boulenger & Cie tile company | 1910 |  | fontlibrary.org, arielgraphisme.com (lookalike by by Ariel Martín Pérez) | Ariel Martín Pérez via email; pietondeparis.canalblog.com; Ovenden, Mark: Paris Métro Style |
Paris | Alphabet Métro (all-caps, based on Univers) | Adrian Frutiger | 1973 |  | | stbride.org |
Paris | RER RATP (all-caps Helvetica/Formula One hybrid) | Albert Boton | 1977 |  | | typofacto.com, twitter.com/SongPhanekham, klingspor-museum.de (PDF) |
Paris | Parisine | Jean François Porchez | 1996 |  | typofonderie.com, myfonts.com | stbride.org, creativepro.com, typofonderie.com |
Prague | Metron 2 | Jiri Rathousky | 1974 |  | myfonts.com | magtypo.cz, fonts-online.com |
Riyadh | Metro Riyadh (for the upcoming metro) | Tarek Atrissi | 2013 |  | | atrissi.com |
Rotterdam | RET 3 | Henk van Leyden | 1984 |  | | Henk van Leyden via email |
Santiago | TS Info, TS Mapa | Departamento de Estudios Tipográficos (DET) | 2009 |  | dtpm.cl | det.cl |
Seoul | Korail / | unknown designer | ca. 2003 |  | asiafont.com | typophile.com |
Singapore | LTA Identity | Hubert Jocham | 2000 |  | | Hubert Jocham via email, LTAFont.PDF, designweek.co.uk |
Stockholm | SL-grotesk (aka: SS-grotesk, digitized: Esseltub) 4 | Stig Åke Möller, Fru Nyström | 1955 |  | fontsgeek.com | inuse.se, en.wikipedia.org |
Stockholm | SL Gothic (introduced in 2016; based on SL-grotesk) | FamiljenPangea | 2004 |  | | red-dot.org, slideshare.net/KanalSL, typecache.com |
Sydney | Whitton (for the Metro) | Dalton Maag | 2017? |  | | transportdesign.com |
Toronto | Toronto Subway | unknown designer | 1954 |  | quadrat.com, fontpool.com | poslfit.com, flickr.com, joeclark.org |