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Highway fonts in different countries
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this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
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It's really pissing me off that this map doesn't include the typeface names
Anyway, here are the specs of the Finnish one in a pdf. It doesn't seem to be named other than "typeface for road signs" or available as a font file
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_signage_typefaces
As I understood it the typeface is distributed this way because the roadsign makers will handle the letters as graphic elements, not text.
And I think someone actually unofficially adapted it as a font at some point.
It looks quite similar to DIN 1451 tbh
The capital letters seem to be quite similar, but the small letters look different to me.