Freeware Friday: Blue Highway/Expressway Free

Fonts are a very good thing; free is a very good price; fonts that are fun to play with are the trifecta. Blue Highway is first past the post.

Blue Highway is a True-Type font created by typefounder Larabie Fonts, a font house with a reputation of coming up with cool bits and then giving them away (their site is here); they do their distribution through MyFonts.com. Blue Highway is perhaps their best-known (or most-seen) font and five examples of it, insipred by the commonly seen font on freeway signs and more than a few street blades.

Blue Highway is TTF, so it may not be approriate for all uses. However, the uses it’s best for-headlines, subheads, pictures–lend themselves well to conversion to outlines as part of the workflow. So, actually, the design possiblities are nearly endless, and it does look good.

The Blue Highway font freebie is currently mounted by DaFont.com, and you can get your five free fonts here.

As Typodermic

In 2001 Ray Larabie started his commerical foundry Typodermic, where he crafts fonts for sale. Blue Highway has made the translation over to Typodermic where it is now known as Expressway; MyFonts has a single variety of Expressway for free (go this way for it) but it is available as both Mac and Win, TTF and PS.