The FHWA Series fonts (often informally referred to as Highway Gothic) are a set of sans-serif typefaces developed by the United States Federal Highway Administration and used for road signage in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australia, Spain, Portugal, Lithuania, Hungary, Croatia, Ukraine, Latvia, Belarus, Romania, Moldova, Iceland, Mongolia, Venezuela, Jamaica, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Sweden, Brazil, Argentina, Germany, Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Taiwan and New Zealand. The fonts were created to maximize legibility at a distance and at high speed. Versions known as Highway Gothic or Interstate, which are for sale to the general public, include punctuation marks based on a square shape. However, on signage, the official FHWA Series punctuation is based on a circular shape.
The set consists of seven fonts: "A" (the narrowest), "B", "C", "D", "E", "E(M)" (a modified version of "E" with wider strokes), and "F" (the widest). The fonts originally included only uppercase letters, with the exception of "E(M)", which was used on large expressway and freeway guide signs.
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