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Roadway specimen from K-Type

A small caps display font derived from New York street sign lettering, pairing condensed uppercase with regular-width superscript small caps to replicate the two-weight signage convention.

About

The design mimics the typographic logic of U.S. highway signage, where condensed capitals carry the main street name and smaller regular-width letters denote 'road' or 'street' as a superscript. Roadway encodes this convention directly into the font: uppercase keys produce condensed caps, lowercase keys produce half-size regular small caps at superscript height. Specialist punctuation — a superscript comma, period and hyphen — completes the street sign illusion.

Classification

An all-caps display typeface derived from U.S. highway and New York street sign lettering. Its small caps structure — condensed uppercase paired with regular-width superscript lowercase — gives it a specialised, sign-painting character rather than that of a text or general-purpose sans.

Weights

Regular

Languages

Latin

Tags

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