Today: - oh, maybe I should make this detour alert a different typeface- oh, maybe it should look like a detour sign- oh, all the detour sign clip art is awful- what typeface do road signs use?- what is the google font equivalent for the custom typefac...
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Today:
- oh, maybe I should make this detour alert a different typeface
- oh, maybe it should look like a detour sign
- oh, all the detour sign clip art is awful
- what typeface do road signs use?
- what is the google font equivalent for the custom typeface that US road signs use?
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@a11yMel
This is a great day.Is Overpass the closest to "Standard Alphabets" (aka Highway Gothic) on Google Fonts?
RoadGeek 2014 is an accurate, open source font you can host yourself.Other details:
* It looks like the M4-8P detour sign uses a different font than M4-9 & M4-10R/L (there are different series of the Standard Alphabet typeface).
* "Clearview" is a "Standard Alphabet" alternative but only for white text.
* In print, the background orange color is Pantone 152.
* I'm glad the current version of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices is in an accessible PDF but why did they stop making it available in HTML?Overpass - Google Fonts
Overpass is a free, Open Source typeface designed by Delve Fonts. The design of Overpass is an interpretation of the well-known “Highway Gothic” letterforms fro
Google Fonts (fonts.google.com)
GitHub - sammdot/roadgeek-fonts: A set of fonts replicating various road sign typefaces.
A set of fonts replicating various road sign typefaces. - sammdot/roadgeek-fonts
GitHub (github.com)
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@cwilcox808 Overpass is indeed the one I landed on.
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P.S. the detour is in my EmberFest talk
P.P.S. It’s in Dublin on Sept 12-13
P.P.P.S. You should totally come if you can.
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@a11yMel
I didn't go this deep then but last year I looked for some information about street signs to make a web one.I don't remember why, obviously it was for Halloween, but I don't think I actually used it for anything.
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@cwilcox808 heh mine is for a slide deck, I detour into the AccName
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