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Template:Short description Template:More citations needed Template:Use mdy dates Typefaces used for signage in public areas, such as roads and airports, often share characteristics of, or are chosen for, their readability.

Typefaces

Typeface Used by Notes Image
Template:Ill SNCF, France Created in 2008 to improve station accessibility
Template:Ill and Template:Ill Road signs in Italy, San Marino and Vatican City
Road signs in Albania 		Alfabeto Normale is a bolder variant of the British Transport typeface.[1] Alfabeto Stretto is a condensed version of Alfabeto Normale. Both fonts have their own positive (for dark-coloured text on light backgrounds) and negative (for light-coloured text on dark backgrounds) versions. File:Aggius 26 - août 2015.jpg
Antique Olive California Department of Transportation Some regulatory signs File:Antique Olive.svg
Arial Template:Plainlist File:ArialMTsp.svg
Austria Austria Being phased out since 2013 File:Austria.svg
Avant Garde KAI Commuter rail network in Indonesia (before 2021) Now gradually replaced with Circular in 2021, with remaining old signages still in place. File:Sudirman station, Jakarta.jpg
Avenir Macau Light Rapid Transit
Dublin Airport
Minneapolis–Saint Paul Metro Transit[2] 		File:AvenirSP.png
Bembo Smithsonian signage in Washington D.C. File:ET Book sample.png
Brusseline Brussels Intercommunal Transport Company File:Brusseline name.svg
Calvert Tyne & Wear Metro, United Kingdom.[3][4] File:Haymarket Metro station, 20 September 2010 (6).jpg
Caractères France Used for road signs in France and in some countries in Africa. In France it is used in four variants known as L1, L2, L4, L5. Its usage is mandated by the Interministerial Instruction on Road Signs and Signals (Instruction Interministérielle sur la Signalisation Routière)[5] File:Caracteres.svg
Template:Ill Directorate-General for Traffic
Road signs in Spain		 Proprietary typeface commissioned for this purpose, used on intracity road signs. Derived from the Transport typeface. File:CCRIGE font specimen.svg
Casey Singapore MRT (since 2019)
Changi Airport (since 2022)		 Used by Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation until its merger with MTR in 2007. Being gradually replaced by Myriad, which is used by MTR on its networks. File:Casey Showcase.png
Cast[6] Most Taiwanese urban rail systems (since 2022) Designed by Dominique Kerber
Circular Transport for West Midlands (since 2018)[7]
Kereta Api Indonesia (since 2020)[8]
Clarendon U.S. National Park Service road signs[9] Used by Public Transport Company in Poznań as the typeface for its fleet vehicles numbering File:Clarendon.svg
Clearview Template:Plainlist Developed to replace U.S. FHWA (Federal Highway Administration) typefaces[9] File:Clearview sample.svg
Dansk Vejtavleskrift Road signs in Denmark[10] Derived from the Transport typeface File:Ringkøbing31.jpg
Deutsche Bahn WLS Deutsche Bahn station signage[11] Developed in close reference to Helvetica
DIN 1451 Road signs in Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo Counties
Road signs in Germany
Road signs in the Czech Republic
Road signs in Latvia
Road signs in the Southern African Development Community
Road signs in Brunei
Road signs in Singapore
Road signs in Syria
Bengaluru Metro (Namma Metro) signage
Kansai International Airport (KIX) (since 2022) 		The DIN typeface was used for regulatory and warning Signs in Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo counties.

Also used in the Greek motorway network
The DIN typeface for the Namma Metro is in English and Kannada.

The DIN typeface is currently in the process of gradually replacing the Frutiger typeface for Kansai Airport during its renovations in preparation for Expo 2025.

File:DIN 1451.svg
Drogowskaz Polish road signage typeface One of a few digitalisations; officially the typeface used in Polish road signs has no defined name. File:Drogowskaz sample.svg
Esseltub Previously used in Stockholm Metro File:Hötorget skylt.jpeg
FIP signage typeface Government of Canada A modified version of Helvetica Medium used by the Government of Canada[12]
FF Fago ADIF Used as official font for signage system of all Spanish railway stations owned by the state-owned administrator, ADIF
FF Meta Stockholm Metro
Caltrans
Birmingham Airport
TransLink (British Columbia)		 Some mile marker signs File:FFMeta.svg
FF Transit Template:Plainlist Developed by MetaDesign for Berlin's public transport company BVG and later adopted by other transport systems. Contains many pictograms for signage. Based on Frutiger.[13]
FF Scala Sans Los Angeles Metro File:FFScalaSansAIB.svg
FHWA Series typeface (Highway Gothic)[9] Road signs in the Americas, Australasia, China, India, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, and Turkey Developed for U.S. road signage
Formerly used on Spanish motorways
Turkey uses two typefaces on road signs based on this typeface – O-Serisi for motorways and E-Serisi for all other roads.		 File:Highway Gothic Sample.svg
Freight Sans Kempegowda International Airport
Frutiger Template:Plainlist The Frutiger typeface was commissioned for use at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport in 1975. It has also been used for regulatory and warning signs in Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Solano, Sonoma, and Yolo Counties. File:FrutigerSpec-1.svg
Futura Italian railways[14]
Street signs in Stockholm		 File:Futura Specimen.svg
Giaothong1 and Giaothong2[15] Vietnam Modification of DIN 1451 typeface with Vietnamese extension File:Typeface sample Giaothong1.svg
Gill Sans British Railways (until 1965)
Transperth		 Also the official font for all the signage system of the Spanish Government. Modified variant of Gill Sans Bold Condensed used on road signs in former East Germany until 1990.[16][17] File:GillSansEG.svg
Goudy Old Style Used on Victoria PTC railway station signs in the 1990s, replacing the green The Met signs. The blue Metlink signs replaced these signs in 2003 after a short trial of Connex signs (using Verdana) at Mitcham and Rosanna stations. File:GoudyOSPecimen.svg
Hangil Road signs in South Korea A Hangul typeface designed by Sandoll Communications in 2008, being used on traffic signs throughout the entire South Korea except for some part of Seoul, along with Panno. File:Dokdoisabu-gil.jpg
Helvetica Template:Plainlist Formerly used the Hong Kong MTR, Stockholm Metro, ÖBB,[18] Deutsche Bundesbahn[18] portions of the LACMTA system and the Melbourne MTA, and some Toronto subway station signage.
Less commonly, the typeface is used on street signs in the United States, including in some suburbs of the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area, parts of Pennsylvania, and by the Contra Costa County Transportation Authority.
Previously used on road signs in Japan and South Korea.		 File:HelveticaSpecimenCH.svg
Helvetica Neue

Metlink/Public Transport Victoria
Swiss Federal Railways
Street signs in Pinole
Japan Railways (English signage)
Road signs in Catalonia

Being phased out on the Victorian public transport network in favour of Network Sans, but still commonly seen.
SBB uses its own version of Neue Helvetica named SBB[19] and named "Helvetica Semi-Bold Corrected" by its designer Josef Müller-Brockmann[18] in the SBB Design Manual.		 File:Helvetica Neue typeface weights.svg
Hiragino NEXCO East Japan
NEXCO Central Japan
NEXCO West Japan		 Japan Highway Public Corporation (divided into three NEXCO group companies in 2005) used its own JH Standard Text until 2010. Since 2010, Hiragino is used for Japanese text, Frutiger for numbers, and Vialog for English text.[20] File:Hiragino View.png
Johnston Transport for London Some Citybus and New World First Bus route displays in Hong Kong File:JohnstonSpecimenEN.svg
LLM Lettering Road signs in Malaysia. Based on the Italian Alfabeto Normale and Alfabeto Stretto File:LLM format 2.jpg
Mark Pro Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality[21]
LTA Identity Typeface Singapore MRT[22]
Metrolis Lisbon Metro Custom font for the 1995 rebranding, designed by the Foundry (Freda Sack and David Quay)
Metron Prague Metro Created in 1973 by Jiří Rathouský
Moscow Sans Public transport and wayfinding in Moscow since 2015 Custom font family by Scott Williams and Henrik Kubel (A2-TYPE) in collaboration with Ilya Ruderman (CSTM Fonts)
Motorway Motorway route numbers in Ireland and the United Kingdom. The numerals are used for exit numbers and route numbers in Portugal. File:Motorway Typeface - 1958 Sample.svg
Myriad Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway
Korail (for English signage)
Seoul Metro (for English signage)
Signage at Istanbul Airport		 File:Myriadsp.svg
Myriad Pro PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe[23] and PKP Intercity[24] Myriad Pro Semibold with kerning increased by 25% is used for train station signage. Additional text in foreign languages is set in Italic (English and neighbor languages for stations in border areas).

Myriad Pro Light, Regular, Bold, and their Italic counterparts are used by PKP Intercity in printed communication (leaflets, folders, etc.)

Neris Manila MRT signage (since 2016)
Network Sans[25] Transport for Victoria
Public Transport Victoria 		Replaced Helvetica Neue
New Frank Transport for New South Wales, Australia Used for all transport signage around Sydney and New South Wales.
New Rubrik Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Manila, Philippines Replacement for Helvetica on airport signage
News Gothic NYC Subway (Mid 20th Century)
Aena airports in Spain 		Used on the NYC Subway in the mid 20th century File:News Gothic specimen.svg
Nimbus Sans Used for Digital PIDS on the Washington Metro File:Nimbus Sans Specimen.svg
Template:Ill Milan Metro[26] Variation of Akzidenz-Grotesk with shorter ascenders and descenders
NPS Rawlinson United States National Park Service Developed as a replacement for Clarendon[9] File:Font rawlinson.gif
NR Brunel United Kingdom railway stations
Iarnród Éireann station signage 		Primarily major stations managed by Network Rail in Britain, introduced in the mid-1990s File:NR Brunel Font Specimen.svg
NS Sans Nederlandse Spoorwegen[27] Based on Frutiger typeface
Panno Road signs in South Korea A Latin typeface being used on traffic signs throughout the entire South Korea except for some part of Seoul, along with Hangil. File:Sample Hangil E-type typeface.tif
Parisine Paris Métro
Osaka Metro		 File:ParisineSpec.png
Pragmatica Saint Petersburg Metro (since 2002) Currently (2010–11) being replaced by Freeset, Cyrillic variation of Frutiger
PT Sans Public transport in Jakarta (Jak Lingko) since 2021: TransJakarta, Jakarta MRT, Jakarta LRT File:PTSans.svg
Rail Alphabet British Rail[18]
British Airports Authority
DSB[18]
NHS
Road signs in Iran		 Designed for British Rail in 1964. Still in use on parts of the UK rail network, but mostly superseded elsewhere. File:Railalphabet.png
Rail Alphabet 2 United Kingdom railway stations An evolution of Rail Alphabet commissioned by Network Rail and planned for use on new station signage projects from 2020 onwards
Rodoviária Road signs in Portugal (prior to 1998) Typeface very similar to the Transport typeface, combined with FHWA Series
Template:Ill Road signs in Ukraine (since 2021)[28] Created by Andriy Konstantinov. File:Road UA.svg
Roadgeek 2000 Argentina[29] Based on the FHWA Series typeface (B, C, D and E only)
Roboto LRT Jakarta
MRT Jakarta
SEPTA Metro		 Used in LRT Jakarta and MRT Jakarta on both physical (before 2021, now replaced altogether with PT Sans under Jak Lingko initiative) and digital signages on existing rolling stock
First SEPTA Metro signage installed in 2024		 File:Roboto Font Sample.svg
Rotis Semi Sans Metro Bilbao Used by its own creator, Otl Aicher, for the corporate design of Metro Bilbao File:Rotisng.svg
Rotis Semi Serif Station signs of Sound Transit[30]
Rotis Serif Street signposts in Singapore
Ruta CL Road signs in Chile[31]
Seoul Type Seoul Metropolitan Government Developed by the Seoul Metropolitan Government in 2008 for usage in official Seoul Metropolitan Government documents and institutions, signage and public transport within Seoul. The structure was designed to resemble the gradual curves of a traditional hanok roof.
SimpleKölnBonn Cologne Bonn Airport Adaption of the Simple typeface from Norm (graphic design group). Commissioned by Intégral Ruedi Baur for their work on the airport's corporate design, which included the development of a large set of visually matching pictograms.[32][33] File:Köln Bonn Airport Logo.svg
Sispos and Sisneg Sweden Designed by Bo Berndal – old Swedish standard (SIS 030011, 1973) for public road signs, displays, etc.
SL Gothic Stockholm transit system [34][35]
Smalt Street signs in Prague[36]
SNV Road signs in Belgium
Road signs in Bulgaria
Road signs in Luxembourg
Road signs in Romania
Road signs in countries of the former Yugoslavia
Road signs in Switzerland (until 2003)		 File:Schweizerische Normen-Vereinigung.svg
Standard (also known as Akzidenz-Grotesk) New York City subway signs Sometimes seen on older New York City subway signs. Was sometimes used in place of Helvetica.[37] File:AkzidenzGroteskspecAIB1.svg
Tern Road signs in Austria
Road signs in Slovakia 		Developed by the International Institute for Information Design with the aim of unifying the road signage in all of the European Union.[38]

File:Tern font example.svg

Times New Roman Station signage for MARTA
Tipografía México Road signs in Mexico[39] Replaced former typeface based on FHWA Series that was used on Mexican road signs before 2023.
Toronto Subway Toronto Transit Commission Used in maps, publications, and most stations of the Toronto subway[40]
Trafikkalfabetet Road signs in Norway Used for Norwegian road signs and motor vehicle registration plates (until 2006)
Transport Template:Plainlist Also used in Portugal, Greece (for non-motorways) and other countries.
An oblique variant is used in Ireland for Irish-language text.		 File:Transport font.svg
Tratex Road signs in Sweden File:Tratex font sample.png
TS Info and TS Mapa Transantiago Created by the DET (Departamento de Estudios Tipográficos, Universidad Católica de Chile) for the Transantiago, the public transport network in Santiago de Chile.
Univers Template:Plainlist Also used for the Walt Disney World road system (route numbers are in Highway Gothic).
Formerly used by the Nederlandse Spoorwegen,[18] on the destination rolls of Comeng trains in Melbourne prior to refurbishment, as well as Hitachi trains which had their original destination rolls replaced in the 1980s with the Comeng type.		 File:Univers sample 2015.png
Universal Grotesk Road signs in Czechoslovakia Previously used on road signs in Slovakia until 2015.
Vialog Renfe
English text on Japanese expressway directional signage		 Used in signage and all corporate communications of the state-owned Spanish Railway Operator in a custom-made variant called Renfe Vialog.
Wayfinding Sans Metro Rio
El Dorado International Airport
Santa Cruz
Kereta Api Indonesia (December 2016–20)		 Used in signage for Rio de Janeiro's metro system Metro Rio, El Dorado International Airport, the city of Santa Cruz, California and Indonesian Railway Company.

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