This font saga dates back to 1948, when the Federal Highway Administration adopted Highway Gothic, a modified Gothic font, as its standard.

According to Vox, the reason motorists see different fonts is because change was (briefly) underway.In the 1950s, signs in the emerging cross-country highway system were designed using what’s ...

Only those with an acute attention to detail have noticed something wonky has been happening to signs on U.S. freeways and interstates over the past several years.

An interstate highway system that mixes the two fonts. Some states, like Kentucky, switched to Clearview entirely; others, like Ohio, upgraded some signs but not others.

This font saga dates back to 1948, when the Federal Highway Administration adopted Highway Gothic, a modified Gothic font, as its standard.

But that easy-to-read font wasn’t so easy to read come the 1980s, Vox reports, when reflective highway signs became ubiquitous.The reflective signs were supposed to be easier to see at night ...