Author's note

RoadSign by Benn Coifman is a free road-sign dingbat font with the blunt authority of highway lettering and traffic symbols. Its set mixes boxed warnings, prohibition marks, and octagonal stop-sign forms, using thick black shapes, stark borders, and plain all-caps wording to echo municipal and roadside graphics from everyday streets.

That makes it a natural pick for poster graphics, zines, event flyers, game interfaces, wayfinding mockups, and collage-style editorial pages where a free font can supply familiar public-sign language fast. The symbols work especially well for title cards, labels, and short callouts because the heavy silhouettes and simple messages read like found signage rather than ornamental decoration.

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RoadSign font character map

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RoadSign font character map: Basic Latin, page 1

Glyphs in the RoadSign font — Basic Latin, page 1

Basic font information

Copyright notice
(C) 1995 Benn Coifman zephyr@cory.eecs.berkley.edu
Font family
RoadSign
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Altsys Fontographer 4.0.4D2 RoadSign
Full font name
RoadSign
Name table version
Altsys Fontographer 4.0.4D2 12/16/95
Postscript font name
RoadSign

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Revision1
Glyph count67
Units per Em2000
Embedding rightsLicensed font (protected)
Family classSymbolic
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
PitchNot monospaced