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Georgia uses both Series C and D fonts for the Interstate Highway signs until 2012. Beginning in 2016 when the interim approval for Clearview was rescinded, the Arizona Department of Transportation is now using mixed case (non-Modified) Series E for freeway guide signage, mixed case Series D for guide signage on non-freeway roads, and mixed ...
Road signs in Luxembourg Road signs in Romania Road signs in countries of the former Yugoslavia Road signs in Switzerland (until 2003) Standard (also known as Akzidenz-Grotesk) New York City subway signs: Sometimes seen on older New York City subway signs. Was sometimes used in place of Helvetica. [44] Tern: Road signs in Austria Road signs in ...
A highway sign using Clearview in Farmington Hills, Michigan, near the terminus of westbound I-696 (2005). The standard FHWA typefaces, developed in the 1940s, were designed to work with a system of highway signs in which almost all words are capitalized; its standard mixed-case form (Series E Modified) was designed to be most visible under the now-obsolete reflector system of button copy ...
A road sign written mainly in Transport Heavy; the white on blue text is Transport Medium. Transport is a sans serif typeface first designed for road signs in the United Kingdom. It was created between 1957 and 1963 by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert as part of their work as designers for the Department of Transport's Anderson and Worboys ...
Typefaces used in road signage varies across countries. Usually a country will have a standardized typeface throughout the country. In some countries however, it is not unlikely to find other typefaces in use — as well as road signs with the wrong typeface printed by manufacturers who default on some other font.
A sign with the use of Transport font in Icelandic Andorra officially uses the Swiss 721 (Bold Condensed) typeface, which is identical to Helvetica . However, some signs use the Caractères and Carretera Convencional typefaces.
Interstate is a digital Typeface designed by Tobias Frere-Jones in the period 1993–1999, and licensed by Font Bureau.The typeface is based on Style Type E of the FHWA series of fonts, a signage alphabet drawn for the Federal Highway Administration by Dr. Theodore W. Forbes in 1949.
Example of an original U.S. Route shield, with the state name of "Michigan" and route number of "27" displayed in the original block font. The original design of the shield was presented in the January 1927 edition of the Manual and Specifications for the Manufacture, Display, and Erection of U.S. Standard Road Markers and Signs, the precursor to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices ...