Non-standard Interstate shields

[mgk920]

I don't have any images handy, but WisDOT used a very hideous looking non-standard 2di shield for several years in the late 1990s/early 2000s.

Mike

[Alps]

I don't have any images handy, but WisDOT used a very hideous looking non-standard 2di shield for several years in the late 1990s/early 2000s.

Mike

www.alpsroads.net/roads/wi/i-39/w135.jpg (cut and paste, don't just click)

[Quillz]

That looks like the "angular" that is apparently fairy commonplace, but with the 1970-spec numerals. So, sort of a "modern classic," if you will ('61 shield with '70 numerals.) At least that's what it looks like to me.

[Ian]

Washington, D.C. has a few oddball interstate shields...

[Quillz]

Looks like a Helvetica or Arial shield.

[Dr Frankenstein]

That's Helvetica.

New Brunswick also uses Helvetica on the few I-95 shields they have (because they use it on all their own shields).

That reminds me, a local signshop seems to be using only Helvetica on their signs, there really is a crapload of those around here.

[KEK Inc.]

Washington, D.C. has a few oddball interstate shields...

Helvetica and a 2di shield?  :S  That's also tiny.  

Anyways, California has its oddballs apart from the bubble shields. 

[Quillz]

Hmm... How was that I-880 angular shield made? It's not from stretching your typical 2di shield.

[SteveG1988]

I spotted one in NJ on 295 Southbound, right after the NJ38 interchange (exit 40). it looks like a beet, that is what the off standard sign makes me think of. The sign is not visible on google streetview, so it is a newer sign. A few others along that strech of 295 seem to be off standard.

[tollboothrob]

General question. I have never seen a bubble shield in NJ, so far. Has NJ Historically been one to stick with standards? Except when it comes to the NJ Turnpike and its quirks.

There's some oddly shaped I-295 shields once you pass through the toll plazas in the southern part of the Turnpike. I remember seeing them at interchanges 2 and 3 definitely, if not 4 and 5. I drive through interchange 3 daily... I'll have to snap a pic.

[national highway 1]

Washington, D.C. has a few oddball interstate shields...

I bet the original I-395 shield looked better. Thank god they didn't remove the original SOUTH banner!

[hbelkins]

General question. I have never seen a bubble shield in NJ, so far. Has NJ Historically been one to stick with standards? Except when it comes to the NJ Turnpike and its quirks.

There's some oddly shaped I-295 shields once you pass through the toll plazas in the southern part of the Turnpike. I remember seeing them at interchanges 2 and 3 definitely, if not 4 and 5. I drive through interchange 3 daily... I'll have to snap a pic.

I've seen a few bubble shields and otherwise oddly-shaped ones in Jersey.

[Alps]

The 710 in L.A. seems to only use state-name bubble shields for mainline reassurance (of which there is little). The 705 doesn't use any shields at all.

[agentsteel53]

The 705 in L.A. seems to only use state-name bubble shields for mainline reassurance (of which there is little).

you mean 710?  if so, I'd never noticed that.  the usual form of reassurance on the 710 is green overhead pull-through signs; offhand I cannot think of a single place where there's a stand-alone reassurance marker.

[Alps]

The 705 in L.A. seems to only use state-name bubble shields for mainline reassurance (of which there is little).

you mean 710?  if so, I'd never noticed that.  the usual form of reassurance on the 710 is green overhead pull-through signs; offhand I cannot think of a single place where there's a stand-alone reassurance marker.

At least three of them I noticed heading NB, but I drove the entire road at once.

[huskeroadgeek]

I didn't know where to put this, so this seems like as good of a place as any. Wheel of Fortune this past week had a "Road Trip" theme. They had many different types of road signs as a background for the set. Included among these were several route marker signs. One was a somewhat wide-looking Interstate 80 sign in what looked like Helvetica. There were also two California-style US shields, also in Helvetica. What was somewhat disappointing was they did have one seemingly perfectly rendered state-name California Interstate shield in FHWA font-the problem was it was for the non-existent Interstate 50.

[Quillz]

I didn't know where to put this, so this seems like as good of a place as any. Wheel of Fortune this past week had a "Road Trip" theme. They had many different types of road signs as a background for the set. Included among these were several route marker signs. One was a somewhat wide-looking Interstate 80 sign in what looked like Helvetica. There were also two California-style US shields, also in Helvetica. What was somewhat disappointing was they did have one seemingly perfectly rendered state-name California Interstate shield in FHWA font-the problem was it was for the non-existent Interstate 50.

Reminds me of this:



The shield uses Myriad Pro in place of the FHWA Series.

[agentsteel53]

really?  that's not EM?  I'll be danged.

[hbelkins]

There are a couple of I-64 signs on overheads in the Charleston, WV area that look just like that sign.

[national highway 1]

I didn't know where to put this, so this seems like as good of a place as any. Wheel of Fortune this past week had a "Road Trip" theme. They had many different types of road signs as a background for the set. Included among these were several route marker signs. One was a somewhat wide-looking Interstate 80 sign in what looked like Helvetica. There were also two California-style US shields, also in Helvetica. What was somewhat disappointing was they did have one seemingly perfectly rendered state-name California Interstate shield in FHWA font-the problem was it was for the non-existent Interstate 50.

Reminds me of this:



The shield uses Myriad Pro in place of the FHWA Series.

I believe Myriad Pro is a better substitute for Clearview.

[Quillz]

I dunno, I doubt Myriad Pro has gotten any proper field testing for long-range visibility. It does work way better than Helvetica, though.

[agentsteel53]

I actually perspective-corrected that 64 shield, and indeed that is not EM.  But it is damn close - to within a margin of error of sign shop sloppiness.

[Quillz]

Well, Myriad Pro does look a lot like E(M).

[Anonymity Lane]

I actually perspective-corrected that 64 shield, and indeed that is not EM.  But it is damn close - to within a margin of error of sign shop sloppiness.

It looks like Interstate:

http://myfonts.us/td-3e2Co0

[Central Avenue]

I actually perspective-corrected that 64 shield, and indeed that is not EM.  But it is damn close - to within a margin of error of sign shop sloppiness.

It looks like Interstate:

http://myfonts.us/td-3e2Co0

That makes sense. There's no reason for someone at Apple to have a spec-compliant FHWA font, but it seems likely they'd have a commercially-available "general purpose" typeface like Interstate.