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Transport

URW Type Foundry · Jock Kinneir, Margaret Calvert · 1958

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URW's licensed digital edition of the Kinneir–Calvert UK road signage typeface, in two weights as used on Britain's motorway and trunk road network.

About

Transport is the typeface designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert for the British Ministry of Transport in the late 1950s, used on motorway and trunk road signs across the UK. URW Type Foundry published this two-weight digital edition, offering Medium and Bold styles as used on actual road signage. It remains the definitive humanist sans-serif from the British wayfinding tradition.

Classification

Digital revival of the UK Department of Transport road sign typeface originally designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert in the late 1950s for Britain's motorway and trunk road network. Two styles: Medium and Bold.

Weights

MediumBold

Languages

Latin

Tags

signageukwayfindinghumanistkinneir-calverttransportmotorway