[Talk-us] Fonts

[Paul Johnson]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 3:06 PM Elliott Plack <elliott.plack at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Great work Brian and Collaborators! I too would love to see those shields
> use the FHWA standard  Highway Gothic - Wikipedia
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Gothic> fonts where applicable.
> They should be public domain as works of the US Federal Government.
>

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.

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.
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