FontLab - Ligatures HD. Typography Served. Actualités, histoire, théorie, pour tous les amateurs de typographie et les typographes-amateurs… Clearview. New Typeface for US Highways.
Type designer James Montalbano announces that after years of development, the US Federal Government has finally given official interim approval for his Clearview to be used on all Federal roads. The ClearviewHwy site covers some of the extensive research Montalbano has presented at various type conferences. Exit 230, Great Bend Susquehanna sign. The Clearview Type System includes 6 weights, with each weight provided with a version for positive contrast applications (light on dark) with letter shapes designed for viewing at greater distance and with overglow reduced or eliminated, and a version for negative contrast applications that is designed to compensate for the underglow of light color backgrounds with black type. The Development Team: Clearview was designed and developed by an interdisciplinary team including perceptual psychologists, traffic engineers, type designers, graphic designers, vision experts and optics engineers.