NPS Rawlinson Roadway is an old-style

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currently used on the United States

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's road signs. It was created in 2000 by Terminal Design to replace Clarendon. Type designer James Montalbano named the typeface after his wife's surname, as her father worked for the Forest Service. Approximately 10–15% more compact than its predecessor, the typeface was found by the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute to increase readability by 11%. Concurrent with NPS Rawlinson Roadway, the National Park Service uses Frutiger for applications requiring a sans-serif typeface.

References

External links

Rawlinson 2.0
at the Terminal Design site
Rawlinson Roadway
at the Terminal Design site {{Traffic signs Government typefaces Old style serif typefaces Road signs in the United States Typefaces designed by James Montalbano