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| Category | Sans-serif |
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| Designer(s) | Theodore W. Forbes |
| Foundry | N/A |
| Date released | 1948 |
The Standard Alphabets For Traffic Control Devices, (also known as the FHWA Series fonts and unofficially as Highway Gothic), is a sans-serif typeface developed by the United States Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The font is used for road signage in the United States and many other countries around the world. The typefaces were developed to maximize legibility at a distance and at high speed. The typeface has 6 fonts, from narrow to wider strokes:
- Series A 2000
- Series B 2000
- Series C 2000
- Series D 2000
- Series E 2000
- Series E Modified 2000 ("Series E" but with wider strokes)
- Series F 2000