For those keeping track, add Illinois to the states that have adopted Clearview font on their highway signs. An informal list of states using the font include:
Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Texas in essentially all new sign installations
Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, Florida, Vermont, California and now Illinois that sporadically use Clearview.
Interstate 57 north and 70 east approaching their split. Even the Interstate shields include Clearview numbers. Thanks goes to Kerrie Field for the photo taken 11/17/07!
I am sure that there are some states that I am missing, but the font is definitely pervading across the land at a rapid pace.
Arizona has it sporadically used, with plans to convert all Valley freeways to Clearview (paid for by MAG as a legibility issue for senior citizens)
Alabama also uses Clearview on the overpass signs that have been placed along the interstates over the past few months.
I forgot to mention the Phoenix street signs also use Clearview, and I’ve also noted Clearview street signs associated with signalized intersections in Mobile, Alabama…
While CDOT may not be too far behind, the city of Colorado Springs has really jumped into Clearview usage. Just recently, I saw new backlit Clearview street signs on traffic lights that had a white outline of what apparently is Pikes Peak on the bottom of the sign.
Where in California is clearview being used?
Iowa is somewhere between sporadic and all new installations.
Connecticut has also startign switching to the new Clearview font. New signs on the Merritt Parkway were the first in the state the use Clearview. CONNDOT started a project to replace aging overhead signs in Fairfield with new ones that will have the Clearview font. Eventually, all of the state’s BGSs will be replaced within the next few years.
And I just received a photo of the first Clearview overhead posted in the state of Oklahoma from Jeff Royston.