If you love fonts or National Parks (or both), you’re in luck—you can download the typeface found on park signs for free. The iconic all-caps lettering used by the National Park Service wasn ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

She even tackles the sign makers’ different names for their font faces, like the “Taxi” or “Pancy Letter.” Read more: This graphic designer turned jeepney art into a downloadable font ...

You recognize Savannah from movies or travel photography: antebellum architecture, moss-draped oaks, shady downtown squares. All true. But escape the horse-drawn carriage circuit and you’ll ...

Why People Freaked Out When the U.S. Wanted to Change the Font on Highway Signs To understand why this is such a big deal, you have to go back to the 1950s. By Danielle Fox ...