Font geek alert: Clearview in NYC
June 20th, 2010 at 11:53 am ETIt appears that Clearview, the typeface specifically developed for road and highway signage in the United States, is getting a firmer foothold in New York City. It’s been on bike-route signs for at least two years (see the photo here at Streetsblog), but now it’s showing up on those green DOT points-of-interest signs too. (You know the ones — they’re usually posted so high up on a light pole that you don’t see them until it’s too late.)
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June 20th, 2010 at 9:38 pm
[...] Once you’re looking for it, you see it everywhere. Clearview’s starting to show up on ordinary street signs (the green ones on every corner that say, e.g., “Broadway” and “Fulton St”). Just this evening I saw a “Clinton St” Clearview street sign here, and multiple Clearview street signs in Chatham Square, all looking spanking new. [...]