not BGS, but "Big Purple Signs" near new PA Turnpike exit - Exit 87: PA 903

[jakeroot]

Had to re-upload this because of some errors, but here's another way of using color coding without making the whole sign background purple or white or whatnot:

[Rothman]

Looks cluttered to me.

[Roadgeek Adam]

Looks cluttered to me.

Agreed, if you're trying to go 50 mph, you'd need to be either very good at reading quickly or have a passenger who can guide you. It's also very noisy if you ask me.

[iBallasticwolf2]

I agree too. It feeds the information it is supposed to but it is hard to read in a short amount of time.

[jakeroot]

Looks cluttered to me.

Agreed, if you're trying to go 50 mph, you'd need to be either very good at reading quickly or have a passenger who can guide you. It's also very noisy if you ask me.

I agree too. It feeds the information it is supposed to but it is hard to read in a short amount of time.

I tried not to include anything that wouldn't normally be on an overhead sign. Is it the colors making things confusing? The "boxes" if you will? I suppose on the HOV sign, you could just make the whole sign black-on-white, but the right sign is hard to do without using boxes (the arrows get in the way).

Here's an alternative. I just changed the colors and moved text around:

[Roadgeek Adam]

It still feels like it's too much to digest on one gantry. You almost need to have multiple gantries to get that together easier.

[Rothman]

The differing lengths of arrows annoy me.

[jakeroot]

Starting to get off topic, but I used more traditional arrows in this version. I also swapped out the right sign for two signs, each with their own respective colors (green means no toll, purple means toll, white means HOV (also changed the overall design, with rounded corners and raised, slightly less wide, overhead tabs).

This version is at the split, instead of 800 meters upstream. Advance signage with this style would not include pull-throughs, since the number 5 lane is optional, and that would conflict with the sign colors.