his is a partial recreation of the character set that is used in the displays from the trains on the Circle Line (that LTA/SMRT Trains doesn't want you to have it).
Fun fact: The Circle Line (CCL) was originally known as the Marina Line in the 1990s before it evolved into the orbital line we know today, through the merger of the Marina and the Outer Circle lines in April 2001.
Note: The newly minted Alstom Metropolis C851E, debuted on 13 April 2026, uses the same font as the North-East Line, which is one fucking hell of a disappointment. It was originally planned to be a new font, which is going to be named as "Marina Two" (as seen on set 865 at the one of the C851E trainsets at the Singapore Rail Testing Centre), or for "Marina One" to be reused again since I liked the aesthetics of that "Marina One Origin" font, like the lowercase letters G (U+0067), J (U+006A), P (U+0070), Q (U+0071), and Y (U+0079), but never did we expect is that LTA reused the font that was exclusively meant for the North-East Line, for the Circle Line.
My bleak confession: This goes to show that each identity of every train line in Singapore is being stripped apart, piece by piece, until there is nothing left to identify them anymore. Hope the Down Town font family won't meet the same fate...
A very stern warning to Singapore:
It has come to our attention, that some of our fonts may have been flagged by someone to the Land Transport Authority to be "unauthorised" and "copyright-infringing" under the Copyright Act of 2021". Those fonts are:
1. "LTA Authority"
2. "LTA Authority Italic"
3. "Abbas Nova"
4. "Abbas Nova Italic"
5. "Abbas Nova Condensed"
6. "Abbas Nova Condensed Italic"
7. "Abbas Nova Compressed"
8. "Abbas Nova Compressed Italic"
9. "Abbas Emilia"
10. "Abbas Emilia Italic"
11. "Abbas Emilia Condensed"
12. "Abbas Emilia Condensed Italic"
13. "Abbas Emilia Compressed"
14. "Abbas Emilia Compressed Italic"
15. "Marina One Origin"
16. "Marina One Pro"
17. "Marina Two Concept"
18. "Down Town Origin"
19. "Down Town Pro"
This is not true, and is considered to be slanderously defamatory against the Font Designer, and FontStruct as a whole.
I have my reasons for my decision, and I will stand by it, in terms of:
"Preservation of those display fonts sourced from trains across Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit transport system through this font-building website FontStruct."
Because of them (whom they think that the intellectual property / copyright of this font belongs to Land Transport Authority, and Singapore Mass Rapid Transit Corporation Ltd.), this font is licenced with an "All Rights Reserved" licence.
To all Singaporeans:
You have absolutely no right to ask me to take it down just because you think that this font, at your own extremely biased view, is a "potential violation of any law(s) regarding infringement of copyright(s), patent(s), and/or trademark(s) as per regulations in Singapore (the Copyright Act of 2021) in itself".
tl/dr: "I told you already every single time, you guys don't ask that to me. Okay? Are we clear about that? I have my reasons, and I stand by it."
Copyright disclaimer:
Any fonts that are created / published on FontStruct are the copyrighted work of the respective creator.
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