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"FHWA" refers to the Federal Highway Administration (URL verified Jul-02).
"Series E" refers to one of the variations of font used on signs. The differences are mainly the thickness, width and horizontal spacing of the characters.
"Modified" refers again to the thickness and width of the characters.
Highway Gothic is a commercially available software font which closely resembles the official font.
Blue Highway is a shareware/freeware TrueType font which closely resembles the official font. It can be downloaded from its creator's Larabie Fonts web site. It includes orthogonal and diagonal arrows as symbol characters. Many other unrelated fonts are also featured on this site. External link checked Dec-99.
The font used on manufactured road signs in US National Park Service areas is Clarendon. This font is very unusual for road signs in being a serif font. In addition, there are many wooden hand crafted road signs in US National Parks.
Most road signs with wording exclusively use upper case lettering, for example "LEFT LANE MUST TURN LEFT". However, signposts tend to use upper case for the first letter of each word and lower case for the other letters, for example "Salt Lake City".
Some road signs come in two forms, one with wording and the other with a symbol instead.
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