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An official digital font file of the typeface has never been released. Instead, individuals or companies have developed digital fonts based on the shapes and specifications provided in the standard. The Roadgeek 2014 font set is an open-source and digital reproduction of the FHWA fonts. [9]
Designed for British Rail in 1964. Still in use on parts of the UK rail network, but mostly superseded elsewhere. 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)
Chicago (1984 by Susan Kare, pre-Mac OS 8 system font, also used by early iPods) Geneva (1984 by Susan Kare), sans-serif font inspired by Helvetica. Converted to TrueType format and still installed on Macs. Espy Sans (1993, EWorld, Apple Newton and iPod Mini font, known as System on the Apple Newton platform) System (1993, see Espy Sans)
The Unicode standard does not specify or create any font (), a collection of graphical shapes called glyphs, itself.Rather, it defines the abstract characters as a specific number (known as a code point) and also defines the required changes of shape depending on the context the glyph is used in (e.g., combining characters, precomposed characters and letter-diacritic combinations).
Typeface Family Spacing Weights/Styles Target script Included from Can be installed on Example image Aharoni [6]: Sans Serif: Proportional: Bold: Hebrew: XP, Vista
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 ...
The font can also be seen in the logos of rock and punk bands The Offspring, Black Flag, and Bad Religion, whilst singer Mariah Carey used the typeface on many album covers. [5] The Indonesian music recording label and publisher Nagaswara used the typeface for its logo, as well as its websites and social media accounts which appear in its ...
Thus, these fonts permit free and open-source software (FOSS) systems to have high-quality fonts that are metric-compatible with Microsoft software. The Fedora Project, as of version 9, was the first major Linux distribution to include these fonts by default and features a slightly revised versions of the Liberation fonts contributed by Ascender.