Austria was the
typeface
A typeface (or font family) is the design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight (e.g. bold), slope (e.g. italic), width (e.g. condensed), and so on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font.
There are thousands o ...
formerly used on all official
road signage
Traffic signs or road signs are signs erected at the side of or above roads to give instructions or provide information to road users. The earliest signs were simple wooden or stone milestones. Later, signs with directional arms were introduce ...
in
Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
made prior to 2010. A modified version of its German counterpart
DIN 1451
DIN 1451 is a sans-serif typeface that is widely used for traffic, administrative and technical applications.
It was defined by the German standards body DIN (, 'German Institute for Standardisation', pronounced like the English word ''din'') i ...
, it came in narrow- and medium-width
fonts. Since 2010 it has been replaced on all new road signs by the more recently developed TERN (Trans-European Road Network) typeface.
See also
*
List of public signage typefaces
This is a list of typefaces used for signage in public areas, such as roads and airports:
See also
* Typefaces used on North American traffic signs
*Road signs in Australia
* Road signs in Belgium
* Road signs in Thailand
References
External ...
References
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Grotesque sans-serif typefaces
Government typefaces
Typefaces and fonts introduced in 2010
Display typefaces