Ministry
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Ministry
Full family
Includes: Ministry Thin, Ministry Thin Italic, Ministry Extra Light, Ministry Extra Light Italic, Ministry Light, Ministry Light Italic, Ministry Medium, Ministry Medium Italic, Ministry Bold, Ministry Bold Italic, Ministry Extra Bold, Ministry Extra Bold Italic, Ministry Heavy, Ministry Heavy Italic
Ministry Essentials
Includes: Ministry Medium, Ministry Medium Italic, Ministry Extra Bold, Ministry Extra Bold Italic, Ministry Extra Light, Ministry Extra Light Italic
- About Ministry
- A 14-weight sans family based on the original British ‘M.O.T.’ (Ministry of Transport) alphabet. A capitals-only, single-weight design was drawn up around 1933 for use on Britain’s road network, and remained in use until Jock Kinnear and Margaret Calvert’s ‘Transport Alphabet’ was introduced for Britain's first motorway in 1958. A 1955-57 revision of the alphabet is the work of stone carver and typographer David Kindersley. For the digitisation, Rian Hughes added an entirely new lower case, italics and a range of weights. The lower case mimics the forms of the capitals wherever possible, taking cues form Gill and Johnston.
- Designed by
- Rian Hughes
- Current release
- Jan 1, 2001
- Initial release
- Jan 1, 2001
- Script(s)
- Latin
- Language support
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Western Europe, Central/Eastern Europe, Baltic, Turkish, Romanian - Features
- Stylistic Alternates, Standard Ligatures, Superscript, Fractions
- Font formats
- .OTF
- Individual weights & styles (14 fonts)
- Thin, Thin Italic, Extra Light, Extra Light Italic, Light, Light Italic, Medium, Medium Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Extra Bold, Extra Bold Italic, Heavy, Heavy Italic
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