Polish road signs typeface

[1] The regulation defines a construction of digits, all of the letters of Polish alphabet and the letter V (not including Q and X), and the punctuation marks: hyphen, round brackets, comma, full stop (period) and exclamation mark.

The typeface was created by Marek Sigmund, whose project, commissioned by the state authorities in 1975, was to replace the former road signage typeface while the Instruction about road signs and signals (Polish: Instrukcja o znakach i sygnałach drogowych) was being implemented.

According to the designer's assumptions, the typeface included creating text on boards by using the freehand and stencil techniques.

[2][3] 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.

[4] There are five fonts that imitate the road signs typeface.