Why are some signs in one font and other signs in another font? Before that question is answered, let’s talk about the history of highway sign fonts. The main typeface on signs for many […] ...

Way back before the 1950s—around the time Nissan launched the current GT-R—there was on the streets of this great nation a shameful hodgepodge of different highway sign colors, shapes, and fonts.

Hello and congratulations on clicking on a story about road sign fonts, you’re officially a nerd — the best kind, obviously. The only approved typeface used on U.S. road signs between 1956 and ...

Signs in Texas show both fonts, Clearview on the left and Highway Gothic on the right. You can see more interior space in the letters on the left. Another tell-tale sign is to look at the tops of ...

Signs in Texas show both fonts, Clearview on the left and Highway Gothic on the right. You can see more interior space in the letters on the left. Another tell-tale sign is to look at the tops of ...

Before that question is answered, let’s talk about the history of highway sign fonts. The main typeface seen on signs for many decades is called “Highway Gothic.” This typeface is defined by ...

Signs in Texas show both fonts, Clearview on the left and Highway Gothic on the right. You can see more interior space in the letters on the left. Another tell-tale sign is to look at the tops of ...

Signs in Texas show both fonts, Clearview on the left and Highway Gothic on the right. You can see more interior space in the letters on the left. Another tell-tale sign is to look at the tops of ...

But only 12 years later, in 2016, the FHWA found that Clearview font had a bad effect on some negative contrast color orientations — like speed limit signs, for example. Those signs in ...

Signs in Texas show both fonts, Clearview on the left and Highway Gothic on the right. You can see more interior space in the letters on the left. Another tell-tale sign is to look at the tops of ...

Signs in Texas show both fonts, Clearview on the left and Highway Gothic on the right. You can see more interior space in the letters on the left. Another tell-tale sign is to look at the tops of ...