Motorway

What is the Motorway Font?

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.

Motorway Font Families

When you download Motorway, the family will include the following font styles:

• Motorway Regular
• Motorway Italic
• Motorway Semibold
• Motorway Semibold Italic
• Motorway Bold
• Motorway Bold Italic

Preview of the Motorway Font

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Who Designed the Motorway Font?

This font has 6 style(s) and was published by K-Type.

Is Motorway a Free Download?

Like all of the fonts listed here on The Font Bot, Motorway is a premium font and is not available to download for free.

Please do not try to find a free download of Motorway. If you really want this font for your new project, support the designer and the foundry and click here to purchase it officially.

I'm sure if you tried really hard, you could figure out how to download Motorway for free. You might also get a virus on your computer or get hacked as a result. Not to mention it is illegal to use Motorway if you did not pay for it.

How Much is Motorway to Buy?

If you've made it this far down the page and you are really interested to use Motorway for your new project, great!

The last time we checked the price for Motorway, it was available for as little as $20.00.