Overpass is a digital

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, based on the FHWA Series

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signage alphabets drawn for the United States

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. It was designed by Delve Withrington with Dave Bailey and Thomas Jockin. It was commissioned by the software company

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as a freely usable replacement for

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, another Highway Gothic adaptation, which is used by Red Hat as its corporate typeface. Red Hat commissioned the family as a freely redistributable alternative since it does not own all rights to Interstate. Overpass currently is released with eight weights and obliques, as well as a

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companion. Originally released in four weights, an expanded version was released in 2016. In 2021 the font was rebuilt and improved by Aaron Bell and Michael Luton with new font weights and Cyrillic characters: ''latest release version'': ''4.0'' (''latest related release date'': ''10 September 2021'').https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Overpass#about and https://github.com/RedHatOfficial/Overpass

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* Latest version: 4.0 (rebuilt and improved with new font weights and Cyrillic characters): *
Overpass Mono
on

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Overpass
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* Previous version: 3.0.4 (without Cyrillic characters): *
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