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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 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 ...
Also used for the Walt Disney World road system (route numbers are in Highway Gothic). Formerly used by the Nederlandse Spoorwegen, [28] on the destination rolls of Comeng trains in Melbourne prior to refurbishment, as well as Hitachi trains which had their original destination rolls replaced in the 1980s with the Comeng type. Universal Grotesk
Clearview, formerly FHWA: DIN 1451 (modified) Helvetica (English) Clearview, FHWA (varies by province) FHWA, Clearview (different fonts specified for different signs) Ruta CL, formerly FHWA: FHWA, Helvetica (English) FHWA (modified) FHWA (modified) Clearview, formerly FHWA: Transport: FHWA: Hiragino (Japanese) & Vialog (English), formerly ...
Highway Gothic or Clearview: DIN 1451: Differences in units. Most speed limits in the US use USC, with the highway signs matching the MUTCD.
The adoption of Clearview for traffic signs over Highway Gothic has been slow since its initial proposal. Country-wide adoption faced resistance from both local governments and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), citing concerns about consistency and cost, along with doubts of the studies done on Clearview’s improved readability. As ...
In 2013, New York City began to change street signs that have been previously used Highway Gothic font for a new one, Clearview, that include both upper and lower case letters, which is considered more readable. [1]
A more prosaic genre of "display typefaces" is those intended for signage, such as Johnston, Highway Gothic, Transport and Clearview. These often have adaptations to increase legibility and make letters more distinct from each other. For example, Johnston and Transport have a curl on the lower-case 'L' to distinguish it from an upper-case 'i'. [42]