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October 28, 2004

Clearview font

Reading about fonts mandated by the federal government for use on highway road signs, I learned two terms : halation and overglow:

On a road with a posted speed limit of 45 mph, a driver is traveling at 66 feet per second. With Clearview-Bold, the desired destination legend is recognized 1.3 seconds earlier (84 feet) and with greater accuracy, giving the driver significantly more time to react to the information displayed.

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Standard Alphabets for Traffic Control Devices

Posted by tplambeck at 10:56 PM

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