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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 worldwide. The typefaces were developed to ...
Highway signs in Danville, Virginia, using both Highway Gothic and Clearview fonts (2007). Clearview was granted interim approval by the FHWA for use on positive-contrast road signs (light legend on dark background, such as white on black, green, blue, brown, purple or red) on September 2, 2004, [9] though not on negative-contrast road signs (dark legend on light background, such as black on ...
Interstate (1993–2004) - inspired by the Highway Gothic series of alphabets for the FHWA. [15] Several italic styles were designed by Cyrus Highsmith, and the monospaced versions were designed by Christian Schwartz. [16] Niagara (1994) - Art Deco-influenced display typeface with minimal serifs, similar to Onyx or a lighter version of City ...
Before the term "sans-serif" became standard in English typography, a number of other terms had been used. One of these terms for sans-serif was "grotesque", often used in Europe, and "gothic", which is still used in East Asian typography and sometimes seen in typeface names like News Gothic, Highway Gothic, Franklin Gothic or Trade Gothic.
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.
Overpass is a geometric sans-serif digital typeface, derived from Highway Gothic, but instead with a focus on usage as a webfont on digital screens for user interfaces and websites. It was designed by Delve Withrington with Dave Bailey, Thomas Jockin, Alan Dague-Greene, and Aaron Bell between 2011–2021. [ 3 ]
Century Gothic Class: Geometric : Charcoal (Mac OS 9 system font) Designer: David Berlow: Chicago (pre-Mac OS 9 system font, still included with Mac OS X) Designer: Susan Kare: Adobe Clean - Adobe's now standard GUI and icon font Class: Humanist, Spurless : Clear Sans (Intel) Designer: Dan Rhatigan, George Ryan, Robin Nicholas : Clearview
Rail Alphabet 2: United Kingdom railway stations: An evolution of Rail Alphabet commissioned by Network Rail and planned for use on new station signage projects from 2020 onwards: Rodoviária: Road signs in Portugal (prior to 1998) Typeface very similar to the Transport typeface, combined with FHWA Series: Road UA Road signs in Ukraine (since ...