On Fri, 8 Sep 2017 18:07:06 -0400, scofflaw wrote:

Have you searched the web for a similar copyright-free font so you can avoid all this nonsense?

We covered the font issue in extreme detail over here last week:
- https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec....A/FCyiDz1TAQAJ

Roadsign fonts are tested under real-world conditions for specific things
such as halation, night-time and speed legibility (especially when tight
interstices are involved), cutout-integrity, removal of tiny notches in
joints of the letterforms, negative spacing compactness (affecting
legibility of signs in negative-contrast color orientations), common
symbols, etc., all resulting in an increase in accuracy, viewing distance,
and reaction time.

The official USA roadsign font is "Highway Gothic"

Another previously-official US roadsign font is "Clearview"
A common USA Gothic-look-alike freely distributable font is "Roadgeek"

In Europe, and specifically in Germany, the road sign font is "DIN 1451"
The Mac ships native with a DIN-1451-look-alike font named "DIN".
The latest Windows ships with a DIN-look-alike font named "Bahnschrift"

Windows MS Office can embed the entire font set which works for Windows.
Mac MS Office can¢t embed fonts & can¢t read embedded fonts.
The Mac has an issue seeing the DIN font (see the Usenet url for details).
Sierra
- https://support.apple.com/HT206872
Maverick:
- https://support.apple.com/HT201375
- http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html

Highway Gothic fonts are available at cost he
- https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/pixymbols/highway-gothic/
Highway Gothic seems to be available for free he
- http://www.dafont.com/highway-gothic.font
Clearview is only available at cost (AFAIK):
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearview_(typeface)
Roadgeek is available online for free in many places, for example he
- http://www.fontspace.com/michael-d-adams/roadgeek-2005

If you know more about the fonts than the summary above, please respond so
that we can learn from what you've experienced.