Newbie Question - Highway Letterring
harg...@indiana.edu
so we may be cousins. Questions:
Does anyone know where I can obtain detailed working drawings of the
Highway Alphabet approved by the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, as it
appears in the 1925 edition of the MUTCD? That's right, I'm looking for
the square-ish and angular version of the alphabet that was used BEFORE
the adoption in 1945 of the FHWA standard series alphabets. I'm unable
to locate these drawings anywhere. I can pay for
duplicating/reproduction costs!
I would also like to find the drawings and specifications, in inches and
fractions, of the Standard Lower-Case Alphabet for Highway Signs -
modern version.
Finally, I'm looking for drawind and specifications, in inches and
fractions of the pentagonal Standard County Route Marker.
Please e.mail me if you can help! Thank you!
Brady
Paul S. Wolf
Can't help with (1).
(2) FHWA publishes the "Standard Alphabets for Highway Signs" in both
English (1966) and Metric (1977) editions. They have the SPACING and
width dimensions, but the actual letter dimensions (radii, stroke
widths, angles, etc) are not published. They are only given in
graphical form.
(3) Detail Drawings of the County Route Marker are in "A Proposal for a
Uniform County Route Marker Program on a National Scale", published by
the National Association of Counties.
--
Paul S. Wolf, PE mailto:paul...@cuyctyengineers.org
Traffic Engineer, Cuyahoga County Engineer's Office - Cleveland, Ohio
Richard C. Moeur
> >
> > Hello, everyone. I'm not really a roadgeek, more like a railroadgeek,
> > so we may be cousins. Questions:
> >
> > Does anyone know where I can obtain detailed working drawings of the
> > Highway Alphabet approved by the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, as it
> > appears in the 1925 edition of the MUTCD? That's right, I'm looking for
> > the square-ish and angular version of the alphabet that was used BEFORE
> > the adoption in 1945 of the FHWA standard series alphabets. I'm unable
> > to locate these drawings anywhere. I can pay for
> > duplicating/reproduction costs!
> >
> > I would also like to find the drawings and specifications, in inches and
> > fractions, of the Standard Lower-Case Alphabet for Highway Signs -
> > modern version.
> >
> > Finally, I'm looking for drawind and specifications, in inches and
> > fractions of the pentagonal Standard County Route Marker.
> >
> > Please e.mail me if you can help! Thank you!
Paul Wolf replied:
>
> Can't help with (1).
>
> (2) FHWA publishes the "Standard Alphabets for Highway Signs" in both
> English (1966) and Metric (1977) editions. They have the SPACING and
> width dimensions, but the actual letter dimensions (radii, stroke
> widths, angles, etc) are not published. They are only given in
> graphical form.
>
> (3) Detail Drawings of the County Route Marker are in "A Proposal for a
> Uniform County Route Marker Program on a National Scale", published by
> the National Association of Counties.
I'm not even certain that (1) exists.
I have never seen any technical specifications for that
typeface, and a number of road historians I've asked
aren't aware of one either. Perhaps the original
manufacturers of the signs may know based on the
drawings for the original stamping dies (the block
letter shape was to facilitate sheet steel stamping,
since that's how many signs were made back then)
I have the 1952 Standard Alphabets book, which does have
mathematical details for sign letter shapes for Series A
through Series F, but no lower case or E(M) details
(sounds like you've already located this).
The M1-6 County Route marker layout details can also
be found in the FHWA Standard Highway Signs book, or
in many state signing manuals such as the ADOT MOAS
or Caltrans Traffic Manual.
--
Richard C. Moeur, P.E., WC7RCM, E.C.I., whatever...
Practicing Traffic Engineer (I'll get it right someday...)
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
"Life is just one W1-5 after another, until the W14-1"
The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of
the Arizona Department of Transportation. Really.
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