When light reflected off of signs with the old Highway Gothic font, it caused certain letters like lowercase A, E, and S to glow and become hard to distinguish, especially for elderly drivers.

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 ...

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

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 ...

A Holiday Inn every few miles, a McDonald’s fry pit off almost every exit and green road signs with white letters. The uniformity of the 46,876 miles that comprise the Interstate Highway System ...

Signs in Texas show both fonts, Clearview on the left and Highway Gothic on the right. You can see more interior space in the letters on the left. Another tell-tale sign is to look at the tops of ...

Signs in Texas show both fonts, Clearview on the left and Highway Gothic on the right. You can see more interior space in the letters on the left. Another tell-tale sign is to look at the tops of ...

He says the lettering is a safer option for drivers. But now, the federal government is saying that font is no longer approved. The alternative is the Highway Gothic font that was used before ...

The Federal Highway Administration is no longer permitting states to use an experimental font called Clearview on highway signs. Texas, one of the typeface's earliest adopters, has used it on its ...

Those signs in particular have black lettering on a white background. The FHWA stated at that time that all new highway signs would be reverted back to Highway Gothic.