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Polish road signs typeface

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Sigmund's specifications included glyphs that appear cut-off or oversized (such as the flat right edge on lowercase "e" and capital "G") and a purely geometric approach to letter design; in general, Polish signage uses large letters to ensure readability.
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The typeface was created by Marek Sigmund, who made the project commissioned by the state authorities in 1975 as new typeface replaced the former road signage typeface resembles CA No Dr typeface, while the
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Rozporządzenie w sprawie szczegółowych warunków technicznych dla znaków i sygnałów drogowych oraz urządzeń bezpieczeństwa ruchu drogowego i warunków ich umieszczania na drogach
1416: 199:– created in 2006 by Emil Wojtacki. Apart from the glyphs defined in the Regulation, it includes many more, designed in style of the original typeface, such as 1443: 1390: 1031: 961: 558: 1409: 1484: 1474: 596: 432: 169:– created in 2001 by Grzegorz Klimczewski. This version has all the glyphs that are defined in the Regulation and also additional ones (including 55:
Regulation on detailed technical conditions for road signs and signals as well as road safety devices and conditions for their placement on roads
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used in various languages. The font is distributed as non-commercial freeware.
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that imitate road signs typeface. Two of them are available as
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Comparison of traffic signs in English-speaking territories
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from Open Source Publishing. Retrieved November 1, 2023.
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motorway A4
Ślęza, Lower Silesian Voivodeship
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typeface
Polish road signs
digits
letters
Polish alphabet
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punctuation marks
hyphen
round brackets
comma
full stop (period)
exclamation mark
Polish

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question mark
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scribal abbreviations
diacritics

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