Off-highway uses of FHWA Series D

[busman_49]

Chipotle's menu boards use a derivative of this font

[national highway 1]

Best ever!

[Scott5114]

Many adhesive lettering manufacturers (whose products have been widely used by railroads, trucking companies, utility companies, etc.) have long used FHWA letter and number shapes because the full specs are publicly available in the Standard Sign Alphabets guidebook, and they're not protected by any intellectual property restrictions.

Does anyone know where these could be purchased? I've looked around off and on but I'm not sure what the most effective search term would be.

[Zeffy]

Does anyone know where these could be purchased? I've looked around off and on but I'm not sure what the most effective search term would be.

I googled 'adhesive lettering' and got some results, but then I did 'adhesive lettering stencils highway gothic' and I did get a few pages that had Series B, C, and D available.

[Android]

You might try "vinyl highway gothic" as search terms as well.

Also... I mentioned the Series C numbers I found a while back for sale on eBay, which are still available. 
http://www.ebay.com/itm/10-PACKS-4-INCH-NUMBERS-STICK-ON-VINYL-BLACK-INDOOR-OUTDOOR-QTY-2/281294056989?_trksid=p2047675.c100011.m1850&;

[agentsteel53]

from the auction:

THE FONT IS HELVETICA

[Android]

Yeah, and if you read my previous post....

.... Last year I spotted on eBay someone selling sets of vinyl 4 inch number decals that were very close to FHWA series C.  Except the company that made them has them mis-labeled as Helvetica! But my eye spotted what they really were, and I bought some.  Heck, that made me check, that person must have a whole crate of the things, they still are selling 10 and 20 packs....

http://www.ebay.com/itm/10-PACKS-4-INCH-NUMBERS-STICK-ON-VINYL-BLACK-INDOOR-OUTDOOR-NEW-/281271829276?hash=item417d1b831c

[Pete from Boston]

I don't really know from one series to the next, but the number plaques on the Northeast Corridor overhead power gantries in Connecticut seem to be lettered in D or a series close to it.

[getemngo]

I think AT&T has moved away from Clearview, but here's an example of it:




At the Huntsville meet, I noticed a lot of Chevron stations used an FHWA font for their prices, pump numbers, and "Food Mart" signage:




And on a bus ad in Grand Rapids:




And if you go to Entertainment Tonight's website and click on a random article, the headline appears to be a knockoff of Series C, and the article text looks like another FHWA knockoff font.

[PHLBOS]

During the first 6 seasons of the TV sitcom, One Day at a Time; Series D numerals were on the apartment doors.

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[sammi]

 

And if you go to Entertainment Tonight's website and click on a random article, the headline appears to be a knockoff of Series C, and the article text looks like another FHWA knockoff font.

These are all the same font Interstate. On the news article the heading font's CSS style even says font-family: "Interstate Condensed Bold";. It isn't as noticeable on the first image though.

[SignGeek101]

I use Series D for my school assignments all the time. I don't know if it's my signgeeking getting in the way, but I don't like the way Arial or Times New Roman looks on anything anymore. Series D or Clearview 5W just looks neat and clean on assignments IMO.

[busman_49]

I use Series D for my school assignments all the time. I don't know if it's my signgeeking getting in the way, but I don't like the way Arial or Times New Roman looks on anything anymore. Series D or Clearview 5W just looks neat and clean on assignments IMO.

On my old computer, I had Blue Highway set as the default font on Word (this was before the Roadgeek fonts came out)

[route17fan]

I use Series D for my school assignments all the time. I don't know if it's my signgeeking getting in the way, but I don't like the way Arial or Times New Roman looks on anything anymore. Series D or Clearview 5W just looks neat and clean on assignments IMO.

On my old computer, I had Blue Highway set as the default font on Word (this was before the Roadgeek fonts came out)

I had Blue Highway set also! 

[Pete from Boston]

Zipcar uses either a FHWA font or something very similar for its primary marketing copy.

[sammi]

Zipcar uses either a FHWA font or something very similar for its primary marketing copy.

I see a DIN 1451 font (FF DIN?) instead.

[busman_49]

Interstate/Series E:
Kettering Health ER, Franklin, OH (a) by Ryan busman_49, on Flickr
Kettering Health ER (b) by Ryan busman_49, on Flickr

[Scott5114]

US-377/SH-99, Ada, Oklahoma (from GSV)

[6a]

I can never tell what series is what, but how about some button copy?