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Motorway is a typeface designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert for use on the motorway network of the United Kingdom. Motorway was first used on the M6 Preston bypass in 1958 and has been in use on the UK's motorways ever since. The font is also used in some other countries, most notably Ireland and Portugal.

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  • Motorway is a typeface designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert for use on the motorway network of the United Kingdom. Motorway was first used on the M6 Preston bypass in 1958 and has been in use on the UK's motorways ever since. The font is also used in some other countries, most notably Ireland and Portugal. (en)
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  • Motorway (en)
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  • Motorway is a typeface designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert for use on the motorway network of the United Kingdom. Motorway was first used on the M6 Preston bypass in 1958 and has been in use on the UK's motorways ever since. The font is also used in some other countries, most notably Ireland and Portugal. Motorway comes in two variants, "Motorway Permanent" and "Motorway Temporary". They are the same except for the weighting. Motorway Permanent is the standard weight, and is used for pale text on a dark background (i.e. white-on-blue permanent motorway signs) while Motorway Temporary is heavier, and is used for dark text on a pale background (i.e. black-on-yellow temporary motorway signs). Both typefaces have a limited character set - only containing the numbers 0 to 9; the letters "M", "A", "B", "N", "E", "S", "W"; parentheses ("(", ")"); a comma (","); an ampersand ("&"); and the word "Toll" (treated as a single character). The character "Toll" was added to the font set in summer 2007, in order to be added to any following new M6 Toll road signs on the motorway. Previously the word "Toll" was written in Transport Medium adjacent to "M6" written in Motorway Permanent. A full character set of the Motorway typeface was completed by the K-Type foundry in 2015, almost sixty years after its inception. The family includes the Bold (Temporary) weight, the SemiBold (Permanent) weight, and a previously unconsidered Regular (book) weight. There are also true italics for each weight. (en)
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