The historic individuality of Detroit's faded neighborhoods is preserved in characters, literally — in the fonts lining the vintage signs and hand-painted advertisements of small businesses. That is, ...

Over the past few years, I kept bumping into something called Hershey fonts. After digging around, I found a 1967 government report by a fellow named Dr. Allen Vincent Hershey. Back in the 1960s, he ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (WHTM) — Now that you know why highway signs ...

It isn't your imagination, Ohio driver. Something is just a little off about those new highway signs. The Ohio Department of Transportation is using a different font for signs that use white letters ...

The font ' Nu Michishirube ', which reproduces the font often seen on road signs, has been released. Sayunu 's 'Nu Michishirube' can be expressed not only with the letters and numbers of road signs ...

Even if you've never heard of DIN 1451, you've seen it because it's a constant companion in everyday life. The font family, which is summarized under DIN 1451, is mainly found on traffic signs and ...

Two sample highway signs reveal the differences between Clearview, above, which Texas began using in 2004, and the traditional highway sign font, Standard Highway Alphabet, below. There is little room ...

A highway sign using the Highway Gothic font. The U.S. Federal Highway Administration announced in January plans to change the Clearview font on its highway signs to the Highway Gothic font, according ...

As she was walking down a street in Panjim in 2017, a shop sign caught the eye of Pooja Saxena, a typeface and graphic designer. The wooden sign, written in cursive Sans Serif font, was advertising ...

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