Skip to main content

How highway signs help us read the road

Do you know your Highway Gothic from your Clearview? Neither did we - but this brilliant video from Vox explains why the lettering on US highway signs is evolving...
June 17, 2021

Related Content

  • Highways UK 2025
    Oct 15, 2025 - Oct 16, 2025

    Featuring industry leaders sharing their views and expertise across 10 theatres including National Highways, Local Authority, Technology & Innovation, Intelligent Transport Systems and Sustainability.

    A free to attend exhibition hosting over 375 exhibitors from across the globe, featuring new ways of thinking and novel partnerships to generate solutions.

  • Highways UK 2023
    Oct 18, 2023 - Oct 19, 2023

    The Highways UK event brings together the people responsible for planning, developing, managing, maintaining, and future-proofing the nation's roads networks.

  • Tenders in for Brazil’s highways
    September 17, 2013
    Brazil's national ground transport agency Agência Nacional de Transportes Terrestres (ANTT) has received eight bids for its US$1.34 billion BR-050 federal highway concession between the states of Goiás and Minas Gerais. The thirty-year concession involves the construction of the BR-050 highway, including restoration, maintenance, road widening and other improvements to provide a 437 kilometre highway along the Minas Gerais and São Paulo border, with six toll booths.
  • US road infrastructure ‘needs more technology’, says leading Republican
    February 8, 2019
    “America will never have the infrastructure system it needs and deserves if we don’t do a better job of incorporating technology,” said leading Republican Sam Graves. He leads the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee in the US House of Representatives and made the comments this week at a hearing entitled ‘The Cost of Doing Nothing: Why Investing in Our Nation’s Infrastructure Cannot Wait’. Ranking member Graves said: “Compared to other countries, our infrastructure is falling behind, and in so