Typophile

Colombia Public Signage

piero101

I need to know what is the official typeface used for colombian road signs.

The typefaces »Interstate« and »Highway Gothic« are quite similar, but I need to know the official one. For example like »DIN«, which is used for road signage in Germany.

Thanks a lot!

It looks like Interstate to me.

You can try asking Ralf Herrmann or Andrea Bergamini. They might know.

Thank you, I’ll ask them!

It's certainly based on the FHWA series fonts, But it looks like it was redrawn.
I don't think you will find a digital font that matches this one exactly.

Thanks Ralf, guess I have to do this by myself.
I already started to draw the lower case g to get this rough look.
Especially the B looks quite nice – pretty DIY ;)

You might use the free Roadgeek fonts as a starting point.

Nice collection, thanks for the advice!

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