![]() ![]() ![]() There's really nothing out there to prevent others from making Clearview clones and distributing them freely or commercially. Oddly, type companies can only copyright a typeface's name and not the actual letter shapes. They're not as cleanly drawn as the commercial fonts however. As for making a freeware version, there's already a "Roadgeek 2005" series of Clearview imitation fonts one can download for free. The similar ClearviewOne family for print graphics use costs a lot too, around $1200 for all of the weights in that "super font." There's a new ClearviewADA family made for ADA sign purposes. Clearview, also known as Clearview Hwy, is the name of a humanist sans-serif typeface family for guide signs used on roads in the United States, Canada. The entire family of 13 fonts (both "B" and "W" series) costs nearly $800. URW America makes the authentic FHWA Series 2000 Gothic fonts featured in the 2003 MUTCD manuals. While Clearview Highway is sold commercially by Terminal Design, to be fair it should be said that previous FHWA Series Gothic fonts have also been sold commercially as well. Labels: driving, font, johngruber, roads, signs, typography Fonts Styles Collections Font Generator ( ° °) Designers Stuff Clearview Highway Fonts. Given how many billions of dollars it costs to build roads, the tens (or even hundreds) of thousands of dollars it would take to set up such a free licensing arrangement would seem like money well spent. Looking for Clearview Highway fonts Click to find the best 2 free fonts in the Clearview Highway style. Then anyone could use it for any kind of signage anywhere, presumably even saving some lives in the process. federal government or some other agency to pay the designers (who worked on the font for a long time) a decent fee to make it freely licensable to anyone. If Clearview really is that much more legible and useful than its predecessors such as Highway Gothic, and therefore leads to safer driving, it would seem reasonable for the U.S. I was a bit surprised to see that if you want to get the font yourself, you need to spend at least $175 USD. Via John Gruber, here's a neat article about Clearview, a font designed specifically to make highway signage more readable, and now being put to use in many jurisdictions, including here in British Columbia, as old road signs are replaced. ![]()
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