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English: Reduced Speed Blank MUTCD sign. 600 mm by 750 mm (24 in by 30 in) Speed Limit sign, made to the specifications of the 2004 edition of Standard Highway Signs (sign R2-5b). Uses the Roadgeek 2005 fonts. (United States law does not permit the copyrighting of typeface designs, and the fonts are meant to be copies of a U.S. Government ...
Signs including Stop, Yield, No Turns, No Trucks, No Parking, No Stopping, Minimum Speed, Right Turn Only, Do Not Enter, Weight Limit, and Speed Limit are considered regulatory signs. Some have special shapes, such as the octagon for the Stop sign and the crossbuck for railroad crossings.
Speed limit sign SVGs from WikiCommons. Data source: [[Speed limits in the United States]] Map colored by Shadowlink1014. == Licensing == {{self|GFDL}} 2007-03-18 20:48 Shadowlink1014 959×593×0 (90602 bytes) Top speed limits in the United States; lightest color (Hawaii) is 60 mph, darkest color (Texas) is 80 mph. From Blank_US_Map.svg (by ...
English: 600 mm by 1200 mm (24 in by 48 in) Combined Speed Limit sign, made to the specifications of the 2004 edition of Standard Highway Signs (sign R2-4a). Uses the Roadgeek 2005 fonts. (United States law does not permit the copyrighting of typeface designs, and the fonts are meant to be copies of a U.S. Government-produced work anyway.)
Regulatory traffic signs within the United States must comply with the federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) or the State MUTCD, depending on the state in which the sign is installed. These signs typically have a white background with black or red legends (legends include text, symbols, graphics not part of the background ...
Question: Something that has not made sense to me since I started driving (49 years ago) is the apparent discrepancy in the posted speed limit (for example 50 mph) and the cautionary speed signs ...
Local traffic road signs usually employ black text on white. Exceptions are the Czech Republic (yellow-on-black), Finland (white-on-black), Austria and Spain (white-on-green), as well as Denmark, Iceland and Poland (blue-on-white). Tourist sighting signs usually employ white on some shade of brown. Detours use black on a shade of yellow or orange.