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2. List of public signage typefaces - Wikipedia

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   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 until 1990. [26] [27] Goudy Old Style: Used on Victoria PTC railway station signs in the 1990s, replacing the green The Met signs.

3. Interstate (typeface) - Wikipedia

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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.

4. Clearview (typeface) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. Highway Gothic - Wikipedia

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   The Standard Alphabets For Traffic Control Devices, (also known as the FHWA Series fonts and unofficially as Highway Gothic), is a sans-serif typeface developed by the United States Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The font is used for road signage in the United States and many other countries around the world. The typefaces were ...

6. Frutiger (typeface) - Wikipedia

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   New Swiss road signs near Lugano use the typeface ASTRA-Frutiger.. Frutiger is a sans-serif typeface by the Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger.It is the text version of Frutiger's earlier typeface Roissy, commissioned in 1970/71 [6] by the newly built Charles de Gaulle Airport at Roissy, France, which needed a new directional sign system, which itself was based on Concorde, a font Frutiger ...

7. DIN 1451 - Wikipedia

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   DIN 1451 is a sans-serif typeface that is widely used for traffic, administrative and technical applications. [1]It was defined by the German standards body DIN (Deutsches Institut für Normung, 'German Institute for Standardisation', pronounced like the English word din) in the standard sheet DIN 1451-Schriften ('typefaces') in 1931. [2]

8. Tratex - Wikipedia

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   Tratex (earlier called GePos) is a geometric sans-serif typeface family for road signs in Sweden. It was developed for maximal readability in traffic, and designed by Karl-Gustaf Gustafsson (known as Kåge Gustafsson). [1] Since 2014, Tratex has also been used on road signs in the Swedish-speaking autonomous region of Åland in Finland. [2]

9. Eurostile - Wikipedia

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   Eurostile is a popular font, particularly suitable for headings and signs. Its linear nature suggests modern architecture , with an appeal both technical and functional. The squarish shapes with their rounded corners evoke the appearance of television screens of the 1950s and 1960s.