When I proposed that this column be printed using a font called Interstate—a commercial typeface inspired by Highway Gothic—I was told derisively, "We don't use Interstate." "He loves ...

I would say that this font does have kind of a midcentury feel, because it’s based on Franklin Gothic. That was a font that was very often used in newspaper headlines and magazines especially.

leaving some states with signs written in a font called Highway Gothic, others with signs in Clearview, and some places with a mixture of both. This font saga dates back to 1948, when the Federal ...

The only approved typeface used on U.S. road signs between 1956 and 2004 were variations of a font colloquially called Highway Gothic, and formally called Federal Highway Administration (FHWA ...

In reality this so-called Gothic ... alphabets any more. And our language can truly become a global one." Amann and Müller ...

BIZ UDP Gothic is an easy-to-read font that is used in a wide range of fields, but the number '1' has a different width from the other numbers, so when you enter a lot of numbers, they will be of ...

As a boy, Gary Yau would cruise around Hong Kong in the back seat of his parents’ car. What caught his eye was not a toy shop or playground, but road signs. After he got home, the four-year-old ...

In the 1950s, signs in the emerging cross-country highway system were designed using what’s now known as Highway Gothic, a slightly shaky font that was standardized across states. It originated ...

Some on X argued that Musk’s hat displayed Fraktur, a gothic font once used by the Nazis in Germany. But the reality is even more complicated that that. According to type and calligraphy experts ...

They’re font experts, and they were eager to match Obsidian’s enthusiasm for the era. The goal was not only to perfect the 16th-century European Gothic and flourished script writing ...