Go here to have fun designing state highway markers from Alaska, Hawaii, and Florida!

*unfortunately, it looks like I cannot embed flash directly into a WordPress blog (if anyone knows how, drop me a line!) so here is a link to where it lives on its own page.

have fun with it; and let me know if you find any bugs. I’ve only tested it on Firefox on Windows XP. All hand-coded; no $700 authoring package for me!

At this point, you need to do a screen-capture to save your work; one of the things I will add next is a way to save to a file. I’ll also be adding lots more shield layouts, as well as more fonts. Series A, anyone?

coming soon: post-Antelope-Canyon photos from Colorado, and wherever else I may have been.

I’ve got this Arizona US 89 on eBay right now.

and am putting in an order for shields in general. Email me at shields@aaroads.com with your request – any state, any number.

DFW’s tolling authority, the NTTA, is replacing all of their signs – which are now unique to each route – with a standardized version. The Dallas North Tollway’s familiar round green shields are about 30% gone; the George Bush Turnpike’s old signs are over 60% replaced, and the newly christened Sam Rayburn Tollway (SH 121) has about 25% of its signs in the new style.

One state north, Oklahoma, is updating their new state highway shields with alternatively colored signs for scenic routes. Oklahoma can be surprisingly scenic. I only wish the directional banner would match.

This led me again to ponder the question of which states are using it and which are not. To address the issue, we have created a guide to catalog each state and whether it uses Clearview of not. Included are examples either photographed by ourselves or by contributors showing examples of the font in each state.

Feel free to write with additional sightings, omissions, or corrections.

The state follows Oklahoma (2006) and Vermont (1995) as states that changed from a drab shield design. A grandfathering process of replacing signs that reach the end of their lifespan is underway. No new highway funds are used for the replacement project either as signs are replaced as needed.