Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!hsdndev!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: What Font is Used on Highway Signs? Message-ID: <1991Apr3.192219.1593@phri.nyu.edu> Date: 3 Apr 91 19:22:19 GMT References: <12539.27f0ac96@amherst.bitnet> <1991Apr2.155046.23391@bmers95.bnr.ca> Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City Lines: 16 Just a wild guess, but I wonder if it's any of the Hershey fonts? Didn't Hershey work for the DOT, or something like that? The Hershey font set includes symbols like the "US Interstate" shield, etc. As a bit of trivia, the US Defense Mapping Agency (or whatever they currently happen to be calling themselves) puts out a variety of universal plotting sheets used for navigation (plotting sheets are essentailly blank mercator grids with unlabeled lat/long lines, scales, compass roses, etc, but no geographic features). The lettering on them is, I'm virtually certain, one of the Hershey fonts. -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"