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List of public signage typefaces

Arial

  • China Railway (English signage)
  • Most Chinese urban rail systems (English signage)
  • Taiwan Railway Administration (English signage)
  • Bengaluru Metro PIDS
  • Road signs in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Laos, North Macedonia, Moldova, Slovenia, Taiwan, Turkey and Ukraine

Avenir

Avenir is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1987 and released in 1988 by Linotype GmbH.

  • Macau Light Rapid Transit
  • Dublin Airport
  • Minneapolis–Saint Paul Metro Transit

Clearview

Clearview, also known as Clearview Hwy, is the name of a humanist sans-serif typeface family for guide signs used on roads in the United States, Canada, Indonesia, the Philippines, Israel, Brazil and Sri Lanka. It was developed by independent researchers with the help of the Texas Transportation Institute and the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute, under the supervision of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). It was once expected to replace the FHWA typefaces in many applications, although newer studies of its effectiveness have called its benefits into question.

DIN

DIN 1451 is a sans-serif typeface that is widely used for traffic, administrative and technical applications.

  • Road signs in Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo Counties
  • Road signs in Germany
  • Road signs in the Czech Republic
  • Road signs in Latvia
  • SADC road signs
  • Road signs in Singapore
  • Road signs in Brunei
  • Road signs in Syria
  • Bengaluru Metro (Namma Metro) signage

Meta

FF Meta is a humanist sans-serif typeface family designed by Erik Spiekermann and released in 1991 through his FontFont library.

  • Stockholm Metro
  • Caltrans
  • Birmingham Airport
  • TransLink (British Columbia)

Transit

FF Transit 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.

  • Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe
  • Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg
  • Düsseldorf Airport
  • Société de transport de Montréal

Highway Gothic

FHWA Series typeface (Highway Gothic) Developed for U.S. road signage. Formerly used on Spanish motorways

  • Road signs in the Americas, Australasia, China, India, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, and Turkey

Frutiger

  • Charles de Gaulle Airport
  • Road signs in Switzerland
  • Amtrak
  • Across the public transport network of Oslo, Norway
  • Dulles International Airport (IAD)
  • BAA Airports in the UK,
  • National Health Service in England
  • Frankfurt Airport
  • Buenos Aires Subte
  • Tokyo Metro (English signage)
  • West Japan Railway Company (for most station signage)
  • Signage at most PANYNJ airports
  • Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
  • Budapest Public Transport Authority
  • Österreichische Bundesbahnen
  • Ottawa street name signage
  • Bay Area Rapid Transit
  • Warsaw Public Transport Authority

Futura

Futura BSK

  • Italian railways

Gill Sans

Gill Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Eric Gill and released by the British branch of Monotype from 1928 onwards.

  • British Railways (until 1965)
  • Transperth
  • Also the official font for all the signage system of the Spanish Government

Helvetica

Helvetica, also known by its original name Neue Haas Grotesk, is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann.

  • New York City Subway system
  • Road signs in Åland
  • Road signs in Cambodia
  • Road signs in China
  • Chicago Transit Authority system
  • Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority system
  • Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority system
  • Baltimore Metro SubwayLink
  • Toronto subway (destination signs)
  • Madrid Metro
  • Fort Lauderdale International Airport signage
  • Japan Railways (English signage) Formerly used the Hong Kong MTR, Stockholm Metro, ÖBB, Deutsche Bundesbahn 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.

Helvetica Neue

  • Metlink/Public Transport Victoria
  • Swiss Federal Railways
  • Street Signs in Pinole -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 and named "Helvetica Semi-Bold Corrected" by its designer Josef Müller-Brockmann in the SBB Design Manual.

Johnston

  • Transport for London

Motorway

  • Motorway route numbers in Ireland and the United Kingdom. The numerals are used for exit numbers and route numbers in Portugal.

Myriad

  • Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway
  • Korail (for English signage)
  • Seoul Metro (for English signage)
  • Signage at Istanbul Airport

Myriad Pro

  • PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe and PKP Intercity

News Gothic

  • NYC Subway (Mid 20th Century)
  • Aena airports in Spain

Nimbus Sans

  • Used for Digital PIDS on the Washington Metro

PT Sans

  • Public transport in Jakarta (Jak Lingko) since 2021: TransJakarta, Jakarta MRT, Jakarta LRT

Rail Alphabet

Designed for British Rail in 1964. Still in use on parts of the UK rail network, but mostly superseded elsewhere.

  • British Rail
  • British Airports Authority
  • DSB
  • NHS
  • Road signs in Iran

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

Transport

  • British road signs
  • Road signs in Bangladesh
  • Road signs in Hong Kong
  • Road signs in India
  • Road signs in Iran
  • Road signs in Ireland
  • Road signs in Nepal
  • Also used in Portugal, Greece (for non-motorways) and other countries.
  • An oblique variant is used in Ireland for Irish-language text.

Univers

  • Montreal Metro
  • Hong Kong International Airport
  • Frankfurt Airport (Univers Condensed)
  • Also used for the Walt Disney World road system (route numbers are in Highway Gothic).
  • Formerly used by the Nederlandse Spoorwegen, 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.