The Federal Highway Administration has ordered NYC to replace all of their existing street signs from those with all capital letters to ones with upper-lower case letters. So “BROADWAY” will soon read “Broadway”. Clearview will be the typeface of choice on the new signs. Upper-lower case typography is much more legible than all caps, especially on wayfinding signs where drivers have seconds to read a message. Replacing all of NYC’s street signs will cost the city $27.6 million dollars and must be completed by 2018. The city currently replaces 8,000 street signs a year, so the new program will result in a slight increase to their already monumental maintenance effort.
