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.
- 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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