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English: Sample of Motorway typeface, featuring the original 1958 character set:
The sample features both the 'Permanent' (Upper, Semibold) and 'Temporary' (Bold, lower) weights of the font.
Date Original Font: 1958.
This file: 18 June, 2019
Source Own work
Author Original font: Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert for Ministry for Transport, now Department for Transport.
This file: The Navigators
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current10:30, 18 June 2019Thumbnail for version as of 10:30, 18 June 2019407 × 504 (41 KB)The Navigators{{Information |description={{en|Sample of {{w|Motorway (typeface)|Motorway typeface}}, featuring the original 1958 character set: * Numbers: 0-9 * {{w|Parenthesis}}: "(" and ")" * {{w|Comma}}: "," * {{w|ampersand}}: "&" * Letters: "M, A, B" for {{w|Route_number#United_Kingdom|route numbers}} and "N, S, E, W" for cardinal directions (north, south, etc). <br>The sample features both the 'Permanent' (Upper, Semibold) and 'Temporary' (Bold, lower) weights of the font.}} |date= Original Font: 195...

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