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About Transport UK Road Signs

Transport is the lettering system of the British road network — a design language, not a decoration. Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert built it around a single question: what does a driver read at seventy miles an hour? The answer is white mixed-case names on a deliberately recessive Middle Blue enamel ground, bordered by crisp keylines and directional patches. Everything here is calm, functional and load-bearing.

Learn more about the Transport UK Road Signs style

Origin
United Kingdom
Era
designed 1957–63; deployed across the UK from 1965
Key figures
Jock Kinneir · Margaret Calvert
Movements
British modernist information design · post-Worboys signage reform

Transport UK Road Signs design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

TransportHeadings
OverpassBody
Overpass MonoMono
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