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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 ...
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 ...
The city of Houston, Texas, allows for street name signs in several of its neighborhoods (usually part of a management district, where property owners assess additional fees to themselves to pay for extra services) to be of significantly different color schemes and fonts from the citywide standard. Since the new MUTCD standard was adopted, some ...
Japan Highway Public Corporation (divided into three NEXCO group companies in 2005) used its own JH Standard Text until 2010. Since 2010, Hiragino is used for Japanese text, Frutiger for numbers, and Vialog for English text. [30] Johnston: Transport for London: Some Citybus and New World First Bus route displays in Hong Kong: LLM Lettering ...
However, UN compliant signs must make use of more pictograms in contrast to more text based US variants. Indeed, most American nations make use of more symbols than allowed in the US MUTCD. Unlike in Europe , considerable variation within road sign designs can exist within nations, especially in multilingual areas.
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
According to the 2014 Minister of Transport's Regulation No. 13 concerning Traffic Signs, [1] the official typeface for road signs in Indonesia is Clearview. Indonesia formerly used FHWA Series fonts (Highway Gothic) as the designated typeface though the rules are not being implemented properly.