US Stop Signs

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John Clements had a question about adding to the clipart gallery http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=20112 Specifically adding to the Roadsigns folder.

This started me thinking about how road signs have changed here in the United States, within my lifetime. I found a site that has some very good information and images of road signs. I thought I remembered the Stop signs being yellow instead of red in colour, and it turns out my old memory wasn't playing tricks on me (as it often does ). Here's a link to one of the pages http://www.trafficsign.us/r1.html

I made a couple of stop signs in Xara using the specifications I found on the above web site. I scaled them down so they fit within one Xara page. I also added some named colours using values found on several different web sites that had traffic sign specifications.

The fonts have been converted to shapes for those that don't have the ones I used. The ones used are shareware fonts available from Ray Larabie. The font name is Blue Highway, they can be found from several sites. Do a search on Google for Blue Highway and you will find many sites to choose from. Another series of fonts that are free for personal use and hobbiest are named RoadGeek, there are many varieties available that offer shapes, arrows, and symbols in addition to the ones with letters, numbers, and punctuation.

The official fonts used for traffic signs is Highway Gothic and it is available from several sites for about $65 USD. Another font beginning to be used is named Clearview. I did not find any sites that offer Clearview at this time.