The Road to Clarity (NY Times Magazine)
From The New York Times Magazine:
By JOSHUA YAFFA
Published: August 12, 2007
How a graphic designer and a typographer and their obsession with fonts and legibility led to a painstaking effort to clean up America’s road signs, one letter at a time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/magazine/12fonts-t.html?ref=magazine
There is a related slide show: A look at how American highway signs have changed, and how we ended up with the Clearview font.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/12/magazine/20070812_CLEARVIEW_index.html
By JOSHUA YAFFA
Published: August 12, 2007
How a graphic designer and a typographer and their obsession with fonts and legibility led to a painstaking effort to clean up America’s road signs, one letter at a time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/magazine/12fonts-t.html?ref=magazine
There is a related slide show: A look at how American highway signs have changed, and how we ended up with the Clearview font.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/12/magazine/20070812_CLEARVIEW_index.html
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