Road signs in Italy

[1] The modern traffic signs in Italy were first designed by Michele Arcangelo Iocca in 1959.

A condensed version, called Alfabeto Stretto, is also used for long names that wouldn't fit.

The font is officially regulated by the 1992 Codice della Strada, article 39 section 125.

[5] It defines both Alfabeto Normale and Alfabeto Stretto for uppercase letters, lowercase letters and digits, "positive" (dark on light background) and "negative" (light on dark background).

These are some examples of the Italian sign "Passo carrabile" (No parking in front of vehicular access to the side properties) in the bilingual variants:

An example of a directional road sign in Italy, in this case near Rieti .
Example of directional road sign with multiple destinations. It is blue because it is on a main road (not a motorway) outside a town. The indication to a motorway is in a green box, and the indication to a geographical feature or a tourist attraction is in a brown box. It uses both allowed fonts: the words VIAREGGIO and Marina di Vecchiano are in Alfabeto Normale, and the word autostrade is in Alfabeto Stretto