Upper & lower case, next exit…

August 12, 2007

Roadsign-at-night

A piece in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, describes (and illustrates brilliantly) the process by which a new typeface, Clearview, has become positioned to replace Highway Gothic as the specified standard for highway signs.

Erik Spiekermann has recently released a typeface, FF Mt, through Fontshop, which was specifically designed for traffic control. It is already being used by the German government.