Highway Gothic Ted Forbes N/A Sample Highway Gothic (formally known as the FHWA Series fonts or the Standard Alphabets for Highway Signs) is a set of developed by the and used for road signage in the Americas, including the,,, and, with Asian countries influenced by American signage practices include the,,,, and. Blackburn 3.0 Bike Computer Manual. Variants, minor and major (but not the exact US font) are used in countries like,, (AS1744 fonts),,,,, and some signs in countries like and, when written in English. The typefaces were created to maximize legibility at a distance and at high speed. Computer versions known as Highway Gothic or (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.

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Contents • • • • • • • • • History [ ] The typefaces are officially defined by the FHWA's Standard Alphabets for Traffic-Control Devices, originally published in 1948 (reprinted 1952). Changes to the specifications were published in 1966, 1977, and 2000. The 2000 specifications differ from earlier versions in the shapes of a few letters and in the inclusion of lowercase letters for all alphabet series. FHWA Series A, B, C, D, E, and F were developed by the (which later became FHWA) during World War II. Draft versions of these typefaces were used in 1942 for signs on the. Between 1949 and 1950, as part of a research program into freeway signing carried out by the, Series E Modified was developed from Series E by thickening the stroke width to accommodate for ground-mounted signs, while a lowercase alphabet was developed to allow mixed-case legend (consisting initially of Series D and lowercase letters) to be used on externally illuminated overhead signs.