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 ...

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 […] ...

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 ...

The historic individuality of Detroit's faded neighborhoods is preserved in characters, literally — in the fonts lining the vintage signs and hand-painted advertisements of small businesses ...

He says the lettering is a safer option for drivers. But now, the federal government is saying that font is no longer approved. The alternative is the Highway Gothic font that was used before ...

A highway sign using the Highway Gothic font. The U.S. Federal Highway Administration announced in January plans to change the Clearview font on its highway signs to the Highway Gothic font ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...