Two font designers have been waging a two-decade insurgency with The Federal Highway Administration about the lettering used on highway signs.

The main typeface on signs for many decades is called Highway Gothic. This typeface is defined by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Standards Alphabets for Traffic-Control Devices, which ...

The edict was both covert and surprising: On Jan. 3 1941, Nazi official Martin Bormann announced that Hitler no longer wanted to see Gothic typefaces used in print. But the stated reason for this ...

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 ...

Following the open source of this BIZ UD Gothic, UDEV Gothic, which combines BIZ UD Gothic with the English font ' JetBrains Mono ' for programming, has been released.

In November, Gary Yau and his team plan to launch the font with 8,000 characters based on the old road signs, which are slowly being removed from the cityscape.

Font forum posters report seeing Clearview in Orange County, while California (which received permission to pursue Clearview) still abides by Highway Gothic.

Studies had found it more legible, and therefore safer, than the Standard Alphabets for Traffic Control Devices---more commonly called Highway Gothic---which had gone largely unchanged for more ...

Because different fonts use different amounts of ink to print, the right ones can save you money, according to new data from Printer.com.

Japanese fonts with a rugged taste like the outline of a bokoboko iron bottle are "Iron bottle Gothic"is. Corresponds to hiragana, katakana, educational kanji, kanji, first-level Chinese ...