NPS Rawlinson Roadway

NPS Rawlinson Roadway is an old-style serif typeface currently used on the United States National Park Service's road signs. It was created in 2000[1] by Terminal Design to replace Clarendon. Type designer James Montalbano named the typeface after his wife's surname, as her father worked for the Forest Service.[2]

NPS Rawlinson Roadway
CategorySerif
Designer(s)James Montalbano
Commissioned byNational Park Service
Re-issuing foundriesTerminal Design
Design based onPlantin, Sabon, Garamond
Also known asNPS Rawlinson
Websitewww.terminaldesign.com
Latest release version2.0

Approximately 10–15% more compact than its predecessor, the typeface was found by the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute to increase readability by 11%.

Concurrent with NPS Rawlinson Roadway, the National Park Service uses Frutiger for applications requiring a sans-serif typeface.[3]

References

  1. "NPS Typefaces". National Park Service. Archived from the original on September 11, 2021. Retrieved September 11, 2021.
  2. Yaffa, Joshua (August 12, 2007). "The Road to Clarity". The New York Times Magazine. Archived from the original on May 19, 2020. Retrieved September 25, 2007.
  3. "Why Frutiger and NPS Rawlinson?". National Park Service. Archived from the original on February 10, 2018. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
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