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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.
The new font's apparent legibility "was more due to the fact that older, worn signs were being replaced with nice, fresh, clean signs which were, naturally, more legible." Better testing also revealed that legibility was worse for negative contrast signs (dark lettering on light backgrounds) such as on speed limit and yellow warning signs. [6]
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.)
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 ...
It has two type of typefaces, LLM Narrow and LLM Normal. Older road signs used the FHWA Series fonts (Highway Gothic) typeface also used in the United States, Canada, and Australia. Most road signs in Melaka and speed limit signs use Arial. Malaysian traffic signs use Bahasa Melayu , the official and national language of Malaysia.
As in the UK, all other text on road signs appears in Transport font. Speed limit signs in Ireland since 2005 have used the modified number glyphs of Motorway, in that they are thinner in weight, and the 30 km/h sign makes use of a special flat-top three glyph.
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Meanwhile, in Ireland, its recent speed limit transition from miles per hour to kilometres per hour didn't take effect until 20 January 2005, although distance road signs had already been labelled in metric since the 1970s. [7] The US territory of Puerto Rico uses a mix – speed limits are in mph but distance signs are marked in km.