What is the Highway Gothic font?
The five Highway Gothic fonts are designed specifically for use by barrier companies and state, county and city Departments of Transportation sign production shops to fabricate signs to meet the specifications of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Standard Alphabets for Highway Signs.
The Highway alphabets are available in Series B, Series C, Series D, Series E and Series E(Modified), all with kerned letterspacing to meet D.O.T. specifications. All packages include capitals, lower case letters and arrows, plus a border-generating font. More…
The U.S.D.O.T. has complex spacing rules for these signs. These specifications have been met in the design and the kerning of the fonts, making it easy for sign makers to automatically generate the proper alignment. The user must use a program that supports kerning, in order that the D.O.T. spacing rules are met. (For other purposes, there are several spacing characters built into the font.)
Please note that there is now a new version of this font Pixymbols Highway Gothic 2002.
Highway Gothic Font families
The Highway Gothic includes the following font families:
- Highway Gothic B
- Highway Gothic C
- Highway Gothic D
- Highway Gothic E
- Highway Gothic E(M)
Highway Gothic Preview
Here is a preview of how Highway Gothic will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.
You're probably thinking - Is Highway Gothic available to Download for free?
The short answer is no. Highway Gothic is definitely not available as a free download font. This is a premium font which mean that you will have to pay to download and use it in your project. We showcase fonts on SharedFonts that are almost all premium fonts. Feel free to waste valuable hours of your time searching for a free download of Highway Gothic, but take it from me, you will not be successful in your quest. Just think how much time and effort you will save if you just pay for Highway Gothic and be done with it.
It is always best to pay for a premium font rather than trying to find an illegal download. The benefits of paying for Highway Gothic is that you get the license to use it leagally. If you're using an illegal version of Highway Gothic and you get caught, you or your client could get into some trouble legally with the publisher of Highway Gothic.
Also it is highly unlikely that you'll be able to find Highway Gothic for free. Doing various searches on Google such as "Free Highway Gothic Download" you will see a lot of websites that will say "Free Download" but these are just attempts to get you to click on a link which will either take you to an ad landing page or you risk getting viruses on your computer. In the rare occasion that you do find a free download for Highway Gothic remember that it's illegal to use a font if you didn't pay for it!
If you really want Highway Gothic and you want to truly own it the legal and safe way, then click here to visit the download and purchase page on MyFonts.com. Here you will be able to obtain the proper license. The designer and publisher deserves to be paid for their work, as they have put in the hours and the creativity to produce such an amazing font. Good luck with your purchase and future use of this font. :)
