NPS Rawlinson Roadway explained

NPS Rawlinson Roadway
Style:	Serif
Creator:	James Montalbano
Commissioned By:	National Park Service
Foundries:	Terminal Design
Based On:	Plantin, Sabon, Garamond
Aka:	NPS Rawlinson
Latest Release Version:	2.0

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]

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]

External links

• Rawlinson 2.0 at the Terminal Design site
• Rawlinson Roadway at the Terminal Design site

Notes and References

1. Web site: NPS Typefaces . National Park Service . 2021-09-11 . 2021-09-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210911230915/https://www.nps.gov/subjects/hfc/nps-typefaces.htm . dead .
2. News: Yaffa . Joshua . The Road to Clarity . The New York Times Magazine . 2007-08-12 . 2007-09-25 . 2020-05-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200519040853/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/magazine/12fonts-t.html . live .
3. Web site: Why Frutiger and NPS Rawlinson? . National Park Service . 2018-02-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180210002733/https://www.nps.gov/hfc/services/identity/type-why.cfm . 2018-02-10 .