Help please! I need to know this font

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6 total messages Started by zack_simmering Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:13

#261

Author: zack_simmering
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:13

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I am working on a project and am looking for a font that mimics this australian road sign. <http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http>://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Australian_National_Route_M80.svg/748px-Australian_National_Route_M80.svg.png&imgrefurl=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Australian_National_Route_M80.svg&h=600&w=748&sz=41&hl=en&start=19&usg=__8P3-uCdlvk5IKO4fngSTcX8wRJE=&tbnid=qGfQMbAkt4V-9M:&tbnh=113&tbnw=141&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dm80%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

Sorry for the long link.

thanks in advance.

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#263

Author: Herb
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:17

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Two minutes after hitting the send button for my previous note, I 
think I found it!

URW's SAA Series D D

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/urw/saa/series-d-d/

Re: Help please! I need to know this font

#264

Author: Dominic_Hurley
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:49

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It's close but the road sign text is wider (compare the "O"). Perhaps they expanded it.

Re: Help please! I need to know this font

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Author: zack_simmering
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:47

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Perfect!!! The links were extremely helpful. I've been searching through our font collection at work...comparing and I think my eyes were going buggy. Sorry again for the crazy link. That is the road sign image for the font I am looking for. Saa Series DD is almost a dead ringer. The "O" does seem a bit more rounded on the road sign, but I think it will do. The "M" and the "8" are definitely dead on.

Thanks for the help!!!!!

-Zack

Re: Help please! I need to know this font

#266

Author: Neil_Keller
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:50

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As an observation, much "official" road signage I've seen uses some really klunky-looking fonts. And the letter spacing is atrocious.

Considering that the primary function of this signage is easy readability and quick conveyance of information or instructions off a fast moving target under sometimes awful light conditions, it would seem to be an anomaly.

I guess non-type savvy engineers did some field testing and this is the best they could come up with.

Neil

Help please! I need to know this font

#262

Author: Herb
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:10

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That link was impossible - it included multiple levels of referrals, 
google search, etc. Is this the image you mean?

http://snipurl.com/4lrr9

If so, I can't find an exact match, and can't find a website that 
talks specifically about Australian road signage There are lots of 
images, though, including some vector images in this Australian Road 
Rules pdf (2.6MB to download):
http://www.ntc.gov.au/filemedia/Reports/AustralianRoadRulesFebruary2008.pdf

While it talks about the content of signs, it says nothing about the 
typography.

The signage has lots of similarities to good old Helvetica (except for 
the M), and to others, including "Outer Loop NF" from Nicksfonts, and 
some variants of Clearview.

Even closer, except for the Oh's Zeroes and Eights, are some of 
Michael Adams' Roadgeek fonts, particularly the Roadgeek 2005 series E 
and F.  As FONTS they're not up to professional standards, but the 
designs are extremely accurate.
http://www.triskele.com/roadgeek-fonts

  - Herb

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