mid 30s / ⚧ / ∞ / 🌲 south sound area
thinking about sending some suggestions to the federal highway administration for the next edition of the MUTCD, what do you all think
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personally i think the WSDOT sign shop should let me make a few signs, and/or someone should ban me from looking at the MUTCD
fun fact this would be 22 feet wide and 10.5 feet tall. freeway signs are fucking huge
Looks nice.
I can't speak for other states but people in CT won't read this. Maybe increase contrast or use color red to catch people's attention
I'm a big fan! I'm worried the slightly smaller font and added space in between letters of OR ELSE may violate some standard alphabets rule - does it?
the actual R1-9(a) as of the 11th edition of the MUTCD (chapter 2B, page 82) has the smaller text at bottom; the spacing is also a little bit expanded, although not nearly as much as i did in the sign above lol.
various different signs have adjusted spacing as necessary, most commonly for space reasons on the diamond warning signs. i also think the particular font i have (https://github.com/sammdot/roadgeek-fonts) is not 100% accurate to the spacing specified in Standard Highway Signs and adding spacing is definitely not proportional to that
personally i also think they should let you make a few signs. also currently staring at my living room wall like "so this sign is... bigger than that"
one time while driving in kansas i saw a work truck carrying like 1/8th of an overhead sign and it gave me a renewed appreciation for how much engineering has to go into mounting those things so that they don't kill people
