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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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However, Irish text is rendered in a unique oblique variant of the Transport typeface. In line with the majority of Europe, Ireland uses the metric system, which has been displayed on directional signs based on the Worboys Committee standard since 1977 and, upon adopting metric speed limits, on speed limit signs since 2005.
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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 off the shapes and specifications provided in the standard. The Roadgeek 2014 font set is an open source and digital reproduction of the FHWA fonts. [1]
A highway sign using Clearview in Farmington Hills, Michigan, near the terminus of westbound I-696 (2005). The standard FHWA typefaces, developed in the 1940s, were designed to work with a system of highway signs in which almost all words are capitalized; its standard mixed-case form (Series E Modified) was designed to be most visible under the now-obsolete reflector system of button copy ...