On Thu, 14 Sep 2017 18:17:13 +0100, Tim Streater
wrote:
For the UK, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_(typeface)
Thanks for improving our combined tribal knowledge on road sign fonts.
Here's an updated summary which includes your input!
Road sign 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.
According to this Usenet thread:
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https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec....A/FCyiDz1TAQAJ
The official USA roadsign font is (still)"Highway Gothic"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Gothic
Another recently used but then deprecatedUS roadsign font is "Clearview"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearview_(typeface)
A common USA Gothic-look-alike freely distributable font is "Roadgeek"
http://www.fontspace.com/michael-d-adams/roadgeek-2005
In Germany (& much of Europe) the road sign font is "DIN 1451"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_1451
The Mac ships native with a DIN-1451-look-alike font named "DIN".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...uded_with_OS_X
The latest Windows ships with a DIN-look-alike font named "Bahnschrift"
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexp...uild-16273-pc/
In the UK, the commonly used road sign font is named "Transport"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_(typeface)
Windows MS Office can embed the entire font set which works for Windows.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...-in-powerpoint
Mac MS Office canąt embed fonts & canąt read embedded fonts.
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html
The Mac has an issue seeing the DIN font (see the Usenet url for details).
Sierra
https://support.apple.com/HT206872
Mavericks:
https://support.apple.com/HT201375
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
Please let us know if you know of more related road sign font information