<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 3:06 PM Elliott Plack <<a href="mailto:elliott.plack@gmail.com">elliott.plack@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Great work Brian and Collaborators! I too would love to see those shields use the FHWA standard
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Gothic" target="_blank">Highway Gothic - Wikipedia</a> fonts where applicable. They should be public domain as works of the US Federal Government.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure it'll work in a lot of cases...if only because some shields interior size is pretty small, and Highway Gothic is a pretty chunky sign font really not designed to scale down to small sizes on screens. Clearview does slightly better at small on-screen sizes but is also a chunky sign font that doesn't work great as a screen font. I think the current version has a pretty acceptable compromise in terms of appearance while still being a font that's actually legible when small.</div><div><br></div><div>There's very few sign fonts that also work as screen fonts; they're rather opposite goals. Helvetica's the only one that comes to mind.</div></div></div>