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Two font designers have been waging a two-decade insurgency with The Federal Highway Administration about the lettering used on highway signs.

This font saga dates back to 1948, when the Federal Highway Administration adopted Highway Gothic, a modified Gothic font, as its standard.

Their Prison Gothic font is the result of six years of painstaking work to maintain part of the city’s history. “This is a way to preserve Hong Kong’s visual cultural memory,” Yau explained.

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.

The font from this scene of Atlanta traffic has the older style Highway Gothic type font on their directional signage. (Getty) There have been six variations of Highway Gothic.

Century Gothic hits the sweet spot if you want a font that looks trendy but doesn’t demand advanced settings. It works beautifully for signage, product tags, and minimalist branding, ...

Hello and congratulations on clicking on a story about road sign fonts, you’re officially a nerd — the best kind, obviously. The only approved typeface used on U.S. road signs between 1956 and ...