You are now free to annoy your friends and family on road trips with this new tidbit of generally useless information about standardized road sign fonts in the United States. If they ask why you ...

Before that question is answered, let’s talk about the history of highway sign fonts. The main typeface seen on signs for many decades is called “Highway Gothic.” This typeface is defined by ...

Meeker became passionate about the topic when he was redesigning scenic-tour signs for the state of Oregon in 1989. He found that, using the approved fonts, he couldn't add additional information ...

She even tackles the sign makers’ different names for their font faces, like the “Taxi” or “Pancy Letter ... with a typeface called “Quiapo Free” last year, and we’re grateful ...

As graphic designer Don Meeker explained in a story about the design of road signs, Highway Gothic was based on a print lettering font, blown up to giant size. “The astonishing thing is that ...