Clearview (typeface)


Clearview is the name of a humanist sans-serif typeface family for guide signs on roads. It was developed by independent researchers with the help of the Texas Transportation Institute and the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute, under the supervision of the Federal Highway Administration. The standard FHWA typefaces, initially developed by Caltrans in 1949 and 1950, were designed to work with a system of highway signs in which almost all words are capitalized. The designers of Clearview sought to create a typeface adapted for mixed-case signage, "from an existing sans serif typeface based on most probably a European example."[1] Clearview was granted interim approval for use on American road signs on 2 September 2004[2] and is expected to gradually replace the FHWA typefaces over the next few decades.

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