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Street signs in Stockholm: Giaothong1 and Giaothong2 [25] Vietnam: Modification of DIN 1451 typeface with Vietnamese extension Gill Sans: British Railways (until 1965) Transperth: Also the official font for all the signage system of the Spanish Government. Modified variant of Gill Sans Bold Condensed used on road signs in former East Germany ...
Series E and F is most commonly used on U.S. speed limit signs, although older signs often use narrower fonts. Street name signs usually feature white Series B, C or D letters on a green background, which can be substituted for other colors, such as blue or brown. They may have all capital letters or a combination of capital and lowercase letters.
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 ...
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 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 ...
Street sign featuring the Ilica font on King Petar Svačić's square, Zagreb House number plate featuring Ilica on the British square, Zagreb. Ilica ( pronounced [ˈilitsa] EEL -itsa ) is a typeface created for Zagreb 's street signalization by typographers Nikola Đurek and Damir Bralić in 2012.
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Interstate is a digital Typeface designed by Tobias Frere-Jones in the period 1993–1999, and licensed by Frere-Jones Type.The typeface is based on the FHWA series of fonts, a series of signage alphabets drawn for the Federal Highway Administration by Dr. Theodore W. Forbes in 1949, assisted by J.E. Penton and E.E. Radek.