Motorway (typeface)

Motorway is a typeface designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert for use on the motorway network of the United Kingdom. It was first used on the M6 Preston bypass in 1958 and has been in use on the UK's motorways ever since. It is also used in some other countries, most notably Ireland and Portugal.

Use in the UK

The Motorway alphabet appears on road signs on motorways in the United Kingdom, and is used for route numbers. It has a limited character set - only the numbers "0" to "9", the letters "M", "A", "B", "N","E" "S", "W", the symbols "(", ")" and "&", and the word "Toll" (treated as a single character). On non-motorway roads at interchanges, the Motorway typeface may only be used on signs pointing in a direction where a driver would become immediately subject to motorway regulations. All other text on UK road signs appears in Transport.

Motorway is available in two weights: Motorway Permanent is the standard weight, and is used for pale text on a dark background (i.e. white-on-blue permanent motorway signs) while Motorway Temporary is heavier, and is used for dark text on a pale background (i.e. black-on-yellow temporary motorway signs).

Nocturnes (Little Boots album)

Nocturnes is the second studio album by English recording artist Little Boots. It was released on 3 May 2013 by Little Boots's On Repeat Records. Featuring production from DFA's Tim Goldsworthy, Simian Mobile Disco's James Ford and Hercules and Love Affair's Andy Butler, the album "celebrates 90s house, seventies disco and futuristic electronics". According to Little Boots, the record is titled Nocturnes because it is "an album indebted to the night".

Upon release, the album received generally positive reviews from music critics. Nocturnes debuted at number forty-five on the UK Albums Chart, selling 2,465 copies in its first week.

Background

Little Boots first revealed plans for her second album during an interview with Artistdirect on 1 March 2010, stating it would be "rawer and a bit more down-to-earth. It'll still be magical, but quite dark and spooky at the same time." On 1 May 2011, Little Boots performed at the China Music Valley International Music Festival in Beijing, where she debuted the track "Crescendo". On 20 October 2011, she released a mixtape titled Shake Until Your Heart Breaks, which featured the single "Shake". She released her third mixtape, Into the Future, on 9 March 2012, containing a remix of the single "Every Night I Say a Prayer".

Motorway 52 (Greece)

The A52 is a tangential Motorway of the A5 (Ionia Odos). The A52 is an important Motorway for the Touristic-Region of the Golf of Amvrakia. The construction will be ready until 2012. The Motorway connect the Airport of Aktio the Island of Lefkada and the A5 (Ionia Odos). The construction started In July 2009. It is 48,6 km long, connect the A5 (Ionia Odos) with the undersea-tunnel of Aktio and the island of Lefkada.It will have 4 lanes (2+2) with hard shoulder and median.