Highway Gothic
 |
|
| Category | Sans-serif |
|---|---|
| Designer(s) | Ted Forbes |
| Foundry | N/A |
 |
|
| Sample | |
Highway Gothic (formally known as the FHWA Series fonts or the Standard Alphabets for Highway Signs) is a set of sans-serif typefaces developed by the United States Federal Highway Administration and used for road signage in the Americas, including the U.S., Canada, Ecuador, Venezuela and Chile, with Asian countries influenced by American signage practices include the Philippines, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. Variants, minor and major (but not the exact US font) are used in countries like Turkey, Mexico, Australia (AS1744 fonts), Spain, Netherlands, Brazil, New Zealand, and some signs in countries like India and Yemen, when written in English. The typefaces were created to maximize legibility at a distance and at high speed. Computer typeface versions known as Highway Gothic or Interstate (a separate font), which are for sale to the general public, include punctuation marks based on a rectangular shape. However, on signage the official FHWA Series punctuation is based on a circular shape.
The set consists of six fonts: "A" (the narrowest), "B", "C", "D", "E", "E(M)" (a modified version of "E" with wider strokes), and "F" (the widest). The typefaces originally included only uppercase letters, with the exception of "E(M)", which was used on large expressway and freeway guide signs.
...
Wikipedia