I don’t necessarily think that Franklin Gothic is an especially unreadable font. Were there any other technical flaws you found, besides the multilingual issue?

Century Gothic is apparently even more economical than a well-known "eco-font", and when printer ink can cost US$10,000 a gallon it's a great eco-friendly initiative that not only helps the planet ...

Two font designers have been waging a two-decade insurgency with The Federal Highway Administration about the lettering used on highway signs.

You can see an example of both fonts side-by-side on a Texas roadway (below): Clearview is on the left and the older Highway Gothic is on the right. Look at the lowercase letters for the most ...

Oh sure, some fonts are more visually appealing than others but is there any real benefit of using one font over another - a financial benefit, that is?

The edict was both covert and surprising: On Jan. 3 1941, Nazi official Martin Bormann announced that Hitler no longer wanted to see Gothic typefaces used in print. But the stated reason for this ...

The main typeface on signs for many decades is called Highway Gothic. This typeface is defined by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Standards Alphabets for Traffic-Control Devices, which ...

The only approved typeface used on U.S. road signs between 1956 and 2004 were variations of a font colloquially called Highway Gothic, and formally called Federal Highway Administration (FHWA ...

The font that best served the widest audience was the sans-serif Franklin Gothic — it was the fastest font for 59 percent of the participants. Then what does science tell us about the best font?