ClearviewHwy
Terminal Design · James Montalbano
The Clearview highway signage typeface, developed from 1995 through human-factors research and granted interim approval by the US Federal Highway Administration in 2004.
About
ClearviewHwy is the road-sign face at the centre of the Clearview system, built from research into legibility for aging drivers. Testing showed it delivered 12 to 29 percent better legibility than the road-sign fonts it was designed to replace. It ships in numbered positive and negative-contrast cuts, from 1 to 6, rather than named weights, matched to specific sign types and viewing distances.
Classification
The famous US highway signage typeface. Developed from 1995 with extensive human-factors testing and granted interim approval by the Federal Highway Administration in 2004. Weight and contrast are designated by a numbered series (1 to 6, positive and negative-contrast W/B cuts) rather than named weights, built for retroreflective road signs rather than general text. Categorised here as sans-serif per house convention, since Roadway is not one of our category options.