Rawlinson Roadway
Terminal Design · James Montalbano
An updated version of Montalbano's original NPS Roadway design, built to replace Clarendon on National Park Service signs with better legibility in less space.
About
Rawlinson Roadway updates and expands NPS Roadway, the signage font Montalbano originally developed during a National Park Service identity redesign to replace the Clarendon they had been using. Testing found it out-performed Clarendon by 11 percent in readability while taking up 10 to 15 percent less space. It includes oldstyle figures and small caps, and covers extended Latin for western and central European languages.
Classification
An updated, expanded version of Montalbano's original NPS Roadway design, built to replace Clarendon on National Park Service signage. Testing found it 11 percent more legible while taking up 10 to 15 percent less space. Categorised here as sans-serif per house convention, since Roadway is not one of our category options.