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Motorway

Motorway by K-Type
Licenses from $20.00
Complete family of 12 fonts: $20.00
Motorway Font Family was published by K-Type. Motorway contains 12 styles and family package options. More about this family
  • Motorway Semi Bold Motorway Semi Bold

  • Motorway Semi Bold Italic Motorway Semi Bold Italic

  • Motorway Bold Motorway Bold

  • Motorway Semi Bold Motorway Semi Bold

  • Motorway Bold Motorway Bold

  • Motorway Regular Motorway Regular

  • Motorway Bold Italic Motorway Bold Italic

  • Motorway Semi Bold Italic Motorway Semi Bold Italic

  • Motorway Italic Motorway Italic

  • Motorway Bold Italic Motorway Bold Italic

  • Motorway Italic Motorway Italic

  • Motorway Regular Motorway Regular

Per Style: $1.66

Pack of 12 : $20.00

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About Motorway Font 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.

Publisher: K-Type

Foundry: K-Type

Design Owner: K-Type

MyFonts debut: Apr 21, 2015

Motorway

About K-Type

K-Type is a small, independent type foundry based in Manchester England, offering a unique range of high quality ‘free for personal use’ fonts, and pay fonts which are modestly and simply priced for designers, small businesses and large organizations. K-Type is the foundry of designer and mail artist, Keith Bates. Many K-Type fonts show the influence of inspirational artists and designers, and are often imbued with a playful wit and the genuine affection of honorable homage. Other K-Type fonts explore the quirky eclecticism of the British typographical landscape and the considerable allure of American letterforms. The resulting faces are reliable and eminently usable. Most feature a good complement of accented characters, and increasingly offer a selection of weights and italics.