Road signs in Croatia are regulated in .[1] The shape and design of the road signs largely follow the road signs used in most European countries, including European Union countries (France, Germany, Italy etc.), to which Croatia joined in 2013. A similar design of road signs is used in the neighboring countries of the former Yugoslavia like Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and also North Macedonia (the latter two are not members of the EU).
The former Yugoslavia had originally signed the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals on November 8, 1968 and ratified it on June 6, 1977.[2] Yugoslavia formerly used a yellow background on warning signs. After the breakup of Yugoslavia when Croatia declared its independence in 1991, the country succeeded to the Vienna Convention on November 2, 1993.
Croatian signs use the SNV typeface.
Warning signs indicate to road users the proximity of a part of the road or a place where road users are at risk.[3] [4]
Order signs inform road users of prohibitions, restrictions and obligations.[5] [6] This category includes priority signs "Stop sign", "Give Way", "Yield to oncoming traffic", prohibitory and mandatory signs.
Information signs provide road users with the necessary information about the road they are on, the names of the places through which the road passes and the distances to those places, the termination of validity of explicit command signs, and other information that can be useful to them.[7] [8] This category includes priority signs "Priority over oncoming traffic" "Priority road" and "End of priority road".
Information and direction signs inform road users about the provision of road directions, the layout of destinations and the management of traffic towards them, intersections and junctions on a certain road direction and distances to destinations.[9] [10]
Additional signs are used in addition to warning, order and information signs. Additional signs specify the meaning of the traffic sign in more detail.[11] [12]