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Motorway
by K-Type
Individual Styles from $20.00 USD
Complete family of 6 fonts: $20.00 USD











Motorway Font Family was
designed by
Keith Bates and
published by
K-Type. Motorway contains
6
styles family package options.
More about this family
- Aa Glyphs
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Best ValueFamily Packages
- Individual Styles
- Tech Specs
- Licensing
Basic typesetting
Letter case
Numerals and scientific typesetting
Typographic variants
Reset
Per Style:
$3.33 USD
Pack of 6 styles:
$20.00 USD
About the family
MOTORWAY is the companion typeface to TRANSPORT, the British road sign lettering. The Motorway alphabet was created for the route numbers on motorway signage, and is taller and narrower than the accompanying place names and distances which are printed in Transport.
However, for Motorway Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert created only the numbers 0 to 9, the capitals A, B, E, M, N, S and W, ampersand, slash, parentheses and a comma. So, although the lettering made its first appearance on the Preston bypass in 1958, K-Type Motorway is the first complete typeface and contains all upper and lower case letters, plus a full complement of punctuation, symbols and Latin Extended-A accented characters.
As with the Transport alphabet the starting point was Akzidenz Grotesk, Motorway taking inspiration from condensed versions. Changes were mainly driven by a quest for legibility, resulting in some reduced contrast between horizontal and vertical strokes, and Gill-esque straight diagonal limbs on the 6 and 9, and high vertex for the M.
Kinneir and Calvert designed the limited range of characters in two weights; a SemiBold 'Permanent' weight for use as white letters on blue motorway signs, and a Bold 'Temporary' weight for heavier black letters on yellow non-permanent signage.
In addition to creating full fonts in both original weights, the K-Type family adds a new Regular weight, plus a set of italics, completing a highly usable condensed typeface which, while rooted in history, is fully functional for both print and web usage. The K-Type fonts are spaced and kerned normally, simply increase the tracking to recapture the generous spacing of motorway signage.
Designers: Keith Bates
Publisher: K-Type
Foundry: K-Type
Design Owner: K-Type
MyFonts debut: Apr 21, 2015
Motorway