INTERSTATE TYPEFACE
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Interstate (disambiguation)An interstate is a type of high-speed, limited-access highway in the United States, part of the Interstate Highway System. Interstate may also refer to:
List of typefacesThis is a list of typefaces, which are separated into groups by distinct artistic differences. The list includes typefaces that have articles or that are referenced. Superfamilies that fall under more than one category have an asterisk (*) after their name.
RoadgeekA roadgeek (from road + geek) is a person involved in "roadgeeking" or "road enthusiasm", an enthusiasm for roads, fond of road trips as a hobby. One may also be called a road enthusiast, road buff, roadfan or Roads Scholar, the latter a play on "Rhodes Scholar".
Highway GothicThe Standard Alphabets For Traffic Control Devices, (also known as the FHWA Series fonts and unofficially as Highway Gothic), is a sans-serif typeface developed by the United States Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The font is used for road signage in the United States and many other countries worldwide. The typefaces were developed to maximize legibility at a distance and high speed.
List of sans serif typefacesThis list of sans-serif typefaces details standard sans-serif fonts used in classical typesetting and printing.
Interstate (typeface)Interstate is a digital typeface designed by Tobias Frere-Jones between 1993 and 1999. Originally developed for Font Bureau foundry, it's been owned and licensed by Frere-Jones Type since 2020. The typeface is based on the FHWA series of fonts, a series of signage alphabets drawn for the Federal Highway Administration by Dr. Theodore W. Forbes in 1949, assisted by J.E. Penton and E.E. Radek. While optimal for signage, Interstate has refinements making it suitable for text setting in print and on-screen, and gained popularity as such in the 1990s. Due to its wide spacing, it is best suited for display usage in print. The terminals of ascending and descending strokes are cut at an angle to the stroke (see lowercase "t" and "l"), and on curved strokes (see lowercase "e" and "s"), terminals are drawn at a 90° angle to the stroke, positioning them at an angle to the baseline. Counters are open, even in the bold and bold condensed weights, further contributing to legibility. Punctuation is based on a rectangular shape, while official FHWA punctuation is based on a circular shape. [1] Since 2011, Interstate has been held in the permanent collection of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
Overpass (typeface)Overpass is a geometric sans-serif digital typeface, derived from Highway Gothic, but instead with a focus on usage as a webfont on digital screens for user interfaces and websites. It was designed by Delve Withrington with Dave Bailey, Thomas Jockin, Alan Dague-Greene, and Aaron Bell between 2011–2021. Overpass comprises 18 variants: 9 font weights and corrected obliques for each weight. The Overpass typeface was commissioned by Red Hat exclusively for use in their software for UI elements. At that time, the commercial typeface Interstate was Red Hat's corporate typeface, but it was not available as a webfont and the time it took to generate new images with each new update of their software were the motivators to commission Overpass. Overpass was initially developed for Red Hat by Delve Withrington in 2011 and had only two weights (regular and bold) with hinting for the TrueType format fonts performed by Jason Campbell. The 2015 update to version 3.0 was developed by Delve Withrington with assistance from Dave Bailey, Thomas Jockin, Alan Dague-Greene, and expert consultation by Michael Luton on Overpass Mono. The newly rebuilt family was released as open source and included the addition of six more weights plus corrected oblique "italic" styles and a new monospaced version called Overpass Mono, which itself has a range of 5 weights. In 2021, with the sponsorship of Google Fonts, the typeface was expanded again by Delve Fonts with the addition of Variable versions and support for Cyrillic script. Post-production assistance on that version (4.0) was provided by Aaron Bell on behalf of Google Fonts.
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