Last week, while on a mini-holiday with my brothers, I got the opportunity to admire some pre-Worboys Committee signage up close. Before the Committee introduced the Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert designed 'MOT alphabet' in 1964, the UK used this typeface for all its signage. The design has been attributed to a civil servant called Hubert Llewellyn-Smith in 1933, but there's no definitive record. It only ever existed in a uppercase single weight, but has since been used as the inspiration ...
