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From: horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne)
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Subject: Re: What Font is Used on Highway Signs?
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Date: 30 Mar 91 01:01:19 GMT
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In article <12539.27f0ac96@amherst.bitnet> ksbolduan@amherst.bitnet writes:
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<As I was driving from Florida to Massachusetts along the Interstate, I began
<wondering what font all those green highway signs are in. It's a sans serif,in
<a bold style, but, though we're used to it, it's not particularly appealing.

Speak for yourself.  I'm rather fond of it.  (Not that I'd set a book in it,
though.  :-) )

					--Scott

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