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- Shinn vs. Papazian challenge
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... Helvetica Medium Condensed, Univers 57, and ITC Franklin Gothic Book Condensed. I've shown the face 8/9 justified, in a newspaper ... who died years ago or just see their letters in Din on a highway sign? If someone scrawls in their own blood "Help Me!" on a wall does ...
Forum topic - Nick Shinn - 18 Dec 2009 - 11:21am - 57 comments - 0 attachments
- (x) New Orleans street signs - Interstate {Roy Wilhelm}
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... they are probably Actually they are probably still in Highway Gothic which was created in 1949 for the Federal Highway Administration. Tobias ...
Forum topic - skyfein - 8 Aug 2006 - 1:06pm - 4 comments - 1 attachment
- Post Modern Type?
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... and the ubiquitous factory folk-art of North American highway signs. They recycle not Romantic and Neoclassical but Realist ... rooted, was a depthless world too. It was the world of the Gothic painters, in which everything is present in one plane...." And this ...
Forum topic - sanapres - 1 May 2007 - 10:01pm - 61 comments - 0 attachments
- Corporate initiated typeface designs
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... company. Named, er, Nelson! See my web site. And Brown Gothic and Walburn for the Globe and Mail -- although custom types designed for ... for the Houston Chronicle. Armin, I agree Clearview Highway is not really a "corporate" typeface (although AT&T has adopted the ...
Forum topic - Martin LAllier - 29 Jul 2006 - 9:44am - 56 comments - 0 attachments
- whats the less eye tiring font?
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... case, just the spin is a little wobbly. Highway Gothic was a quirky icon of the "American Road", but it had a unit system for ...
Forum topic - colore - 9 Jun 2007 - 12:56am - 67 comments - 0 attachments
- The latest in Microsoft's Segoe Saga - from Le Times
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... requirements. Iconic fonts, like Chicago the bitmap, and Highway Gothic aka Interstate, were designed under constraints so tight, if you did ...
Forum topic - billtroop - 19 Mar 2006 - 9:04pm - 125 comments - 0 attachments
- national typefaces
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... read it on the internet) they use "Interstate" for their highway signs, why would you think it was American, and not Malaysian? And ... it its Futura. And after 1933 it was, what we call "New Gothic" fonts like the ones you listed. But the character of a German was and ...
Forum topic - moachret - 10 Apr 2007 - 6:20am - 71 comments - 0 attachments
- old train station lettering
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... that mean? Any digital equivalents? You can try Highway Gothic You can try Highway Gothic or Interstate Condensed for a close ...
Forum topic - ser - 19 Mar 2007 - 3:06pm - 8 comments - 1 attachment
- (x) Aero sans caps - Sackers Gothic {Patricia}
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... Close to Sackers/Engravers Close to Sackers/Engravers Gothic or ITC Blair a little squooshed perhaps. or Highway Gothic/Interstate (but the bowl on the R is smaller than them) Is ...
Forum topic - mossy - 5 Mar 2007 - 1:27pm - 4 comments - 1 attachment
- history of u.s. highway fonts?
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... in new york working on an article about typography on the highway. am trying to track development of highway fonts, specifically the creation of fhwa series fonts (also known as highway gothic). all i have been able to determine is that highway gothic seems to have ...
Forum topic - joshua_yaffa - 21 Feb 2007 - 1:30pm - 4 comments - 0 attachments
