Interstate (typeface)

Interstate or the FHWA Series fonts is a sans serif font. The FHWA Series fonts was developed for the Department of Transportation of the United States. The font is used in particular for local, highway, railway and other official signs. Because the font was used in particular for signs on the so-called interstate highways, the font under the name Interstate was familiar. The typographer Tobias Frere -Jones has designed a version of the font under the name Interstate for the use of advertising, publishing and printing.

History and Use

The Federal Highway Administration, a division of the Department of Transportation of the United States had taken from the developed in Germany standard font for traffic signs of DIN 1451 note and let now develop its own traffic heading. 1949, the FHWA Series fonts was used for the first time. Since that time, the font for traffic signs in the United States is used across. The font is also used by government agencies in Canada, Peru, Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands.

The digitized by Tobias Frere -Jones Interstate was released in 1993. It is used worldwide in advertising. In Germany, the font is used for example by the workshop chain auto parts Unger, from the company Optocon AG and telecom Discount daughter congstar as typeface. In France, the font for the French 2007 presidential election by the party Mouvement démocrate was used for the top candidate François Bayrou. In addition, the font of the Swedish- German social music network SoundCloud has been used.

Interstate is also typeface of broadcasting Berlin -Brandenburg and is on-air used in most programs of rbb television.

Documents

• The Interstate finished second in the ranking of FontShops of the best writings on the 14th place
• Presentation of the Interstate on the side of the distributor Font Bureau

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