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 ...

By that time, Gothic lettering had long been the norm for books in German. The Führer commands. ... He supplied his own: "At ...

Enter Highway Gothic, officially known by the far sexier moniker of Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Stand­ard Alphabets for Traffic-Control Devices. Unless you're a very particular kind of ...

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 ...

However, although BIZ UD Gothic looks very beautiful in Japanese, it is difficult to distinguish between the alphabet 'O' and the number '0', which makes it difficult to use in coding applications ...

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 ...