Overpass is by far the best Google Fonts alternative to Interstate. It’s actually an open-source replacement for Interstate commissioned/sponsored by Red Hat. Interstate itself is based Highway Gothic, the signage systems of the United States Fede. Jan 18, 2008 I have seen Clearview on signs crossing northern Texas between Okla. And New Mexico. I am not sure whether it is better or clearer than the Highway Gothic fonts. I saw Kansas on the list as using Clearview but so far I have seen in very limited mostly by the cities of Lenexa and Olathe, KS.
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Christopher O'HaraHarriet SpearSampleClearview, also known as Clearview Hwy, is the name of a family for on in the. It has also been used in Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, the Philippines, Israel, and Sri Lanka. It was developed by independent researchers with the help of the and the, under the supervision of the (FHWA). It was once expected to replace the in many applications, although newer studies of its effectiveness have called its benefits into question.Initial testing indicated that Clearview was 2 to 8 percent more legible in both day- and night-time viewing than the then-dominant Series E (Modified) on overhead signs, particularly benefiting older drivers, with a 6 percent increase in legibility distance.
A design goal of Clearview was the reduction of irradiation effects of retroreflective sign materials. Reduced nighttime overglow or haloing was expected also to improve recognition rates for computer road sign detection. However, these tests also compared new signs in Clearview to existing, weathered signs in the existing font.
The new font's apparent legibility 'was more due to the fact that older, worn signs were being replaced with nice, fresh, clean signs which were, naturally, more legible.' Better testing also revealed that legibility was worse for negative contrast signs (dark lettering on light backgrounds) such as on speed limit and yellow warning signs. A Clearview highway sign in, installed in 2005 near the terminus of westbound. Note that numerals within the shields use the traditional FHWA typeface.The standard FHWA typefaces, developed in the 1940s, were designed to work with a system of highway signs in which almost all words are capitalized; its standard mixed-case form (Series E Modified) was designed to be most visible under the now-obsolete reflector system of, which has since been superseded. The designers of Clearview sought to create a typeface adapted for mixed-case signage, initially expecting it would be based on an existing European sans-serif typeface. Instead, using a similar weight to the FHWA fonts, a new font was created from scratch. Two key differences are much larger spaces, the enclosed spaces in letters like the lower case 'e' or 'a', and a higher, the relative height of the lower case 'x' to the upper case 'X'.
Smaller counter spaces in the FHWA fonts reduced legibility, particularly when the letters glowed from headlight illumination at night. The typeface's general appearance resembles the design of the family, designed by and in 1957–63 for the British highway sign system.Official acceptance Clearview was granted interim approval by the FHWA for use on positive-contrast road signs (light legend on dark background, such as white on black, green, blue, brown, purple or red) on September 2, 2004, though not on negative-contrast road signs (dark legend on light background, such as black on white, yellow or orange), given its inferior legibility to the existing FHWA typefaces in these applications. The FHWA also refused to add Clearview to the 2009, citing lack of testing on Clearview's numerals, symbols, and narrower typefaces. In April 2014, FHWA indicated it expected to rescind Interim Approval to use Clearview in the future, eventually doing so in January 2016.
Congress ordered the FHWA to reinstate the interim approval on March 28, 2018.Outside the US, Clearview has been adopted in Canada where it has been the standard typeface for signs in since 2006 and used for street signs in. Clearview has been adopted as the standard typeface for road signs in Indonesia since 2014.
Since 2016, has started using Clearview on some signs on the.Variants In addition to its appearance on road signage, a customized version of the ClearviewText typeface was adopted by for corporate use, including advertising, used from 2006 to 2016. ClearviewText and ClearviewADA are versions of the typeface intended for use in general graphic design and signage. An example of ClearviewADA in use is signage at. Beginning in 2018, has also used a variant of the Clearview font in its advertising, with the 'Let's Go Places' slogan in italicized form. Adoption United States Between 20 and 30 states have adopted the use of the typeface as of 2013.
It was not the official font recommended for use by the FHWA and states were required to request interim approval from the Federal Highway Administration to use the font.On January 25, 2016, the Federal Highway Administration issued a notice in the of the agency's intent to rescind interim approval for use of the Clearview font in 30 days. FHWA discussed the current state of road signage research and concluded that 'the consistent finding among all the research evaluations is that the brightness of the retroreflective sheeting is the primary factor in nighttime legibility.' Even worse, significant misunderstandings and misapplications of the interim approval for Clearview were resulting in badly designed non-uniform signs that violated the uniformity central to the. Accordingly, the notice concluded, 'FHWA does not intend to pursue further consideration, development, or support of an alternative letter style.' This rescindment drew negative response from government officials as well as one of the typeface's designers.The FHWA reinstated the interim approval on March 28, 2018, per Division L, Title I, Section 125 of the. ^ Yaffa, Joshua (August 12, 2007).
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