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nycbullets — New York City Subway route bullets for Lua

\usepackage{nycbullets}
Take the \nycbullet{F} or \nycbullet{Fd} train.

The package typesets the route bullets of the New York City Subway in full color with Lua, and in monochrome with . It uses the accompanying OpenType color fonts NYCSubwayBullets-*.ttf. Their artwork comes from the public-domain collection on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:NewYorkCitySubwaybullets.

See nycbullets.pdf for usage and the full list of bullets.

The fonts, the .def files and the key tables are generated from the Commons SVG files by a Python pipeline. It and the issue tracker are at https://github.com/nyumathclinic/nyc-subway-bullets-font; there is a specimen of every bullet at https://nyumathclinic.github.io/nyc-subway-bullets-font/.

License

The code may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the Project Public License, version 1.3c or later. The fonts are dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0, except for the few bullets credited in the "Credits" section of nycbullets.pdf, which are under CC BY 4.0.

Not affiliated with or endorsed by the MTA; the bullets may be trademarks of the MTA.

Download the contents of this package in one zip archive (557.3k).

Nycbullets – New York City Subway route bullets

This package typesets the route bullets of the New York City Subway (the colored circles and diamonds with the route letter or number) in full color with Lua, and in monochrome with , from the accompanying OpenType color fonts.

The bullet artwork comes from Wikimedia Commons and is almost entirely in the public domain.

PackageNycbullets
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Version1.0 2026-10-04
LicensesThe Project Public License 1.3c
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Copyright2026 Matthew Leingang
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