Tag: Transportation
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Roosevelt Island Tramway / Tahoma
Tahoma typeface According to Wikipedia, Tahoma is a humanist sans-serif typeface that Matthew Carter designed for Microsoft Corporation. While similar to Verdana, Tahoma has a narrower body, smaller counters, much tighter letter spacing, and a more complete Unicode character set. This one was much much harder than I had expected, and I spent over 5…
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NYC Parking signs / Highway Gothic
About Highway Gothic From Wikipedia: Developed in the 1940s, Highway Gothic (formally known as the FHWA Series fonts or the Standard Alphabets for Highway Signs) is a series of sans-serif typeface developed by the United States Federal Highway Administration. It was designed to promote legibility from a distance and at high speeds. The thing that stood out to me…