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Irish road sign font
Hello!
Im looking for the irish road sign font.
I thought i would come here considering i cannot find the offical italic variant.
The italic version has a few odd characters rather than the Transport Heavy font.
It would be great to have some help!
Thanks!
Im looking for the irish road sign font.
I thought i would come here considering i cannot find the offical italic variant.
The italic version has a few odd characters rather than the Transport Heavy font.
It would be great to have some help!
Thanks!
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Re: Irish road sign font
Irish Traffic Signs Manual, Chapter 2, page 30
https://efb66ec2-0a40-4ea6-a27b-34f2730 ... f2eef1.pdf
Note that it only has 18 letters, not 26.
https://efb66ec2-0a40-4ea6-a27b-34f2730 ... f2eef1.pdf
Note that it only has 18 letters, not 26.
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Re: Irish road sign font
It seems some letters aren't used in Irish Gaelic, even on loan words.Conekicker wrote: ↑Wed Nov 10, 2021 09:32 Irish Traffic Signs Manual, Chapter 2, page 30
https://efb66ec2-0a40-4ea6-a27b-34f2730 ... f2eef1.pdf
Note that it only has 18 letters, not 26.
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Re: Irish road sign font
Makes you wonder how they spell XmasRichardA626 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 10, 2021 10:43It seems some letters aren't used in Irish Gaelic, even on loan words.Conekicker wrote: ↑Wed Nov 10, 2021 09:32 Irish Traffic Signs Manual, Chapter 2, page 30
https://efb66ec2-0a40-4ea6-a27b-34f2730 ... f2eef1.pdf
Note that it only has 18 letters, not 26.
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Re: Irish road sign font
Also note that both capital A and small a are different, with the "printers a" replaced by round a for the small version and the large version looking like a scaled up version of that.RichardA626 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 10, 2021 10:43It seems some letters aren't used in Irish Gaelic, even on loan words.Conekicker wrote: ↑Wed Nov 10, 2021 09:32 Irish Traffic Signs Manual, Chapter 2, page 30
https://efb66ec2-0a40-4ea6-a27b-34f2730 ... f2eef1.pdf
Note that it only has 18 letters, not 26.
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Re: Irish road sign font
Very interesting document and in the hierarchy they have National Primary and National Secondary. Are the former the same as our trunk roads and part of the Strategic Highway Network and the latter as our primary roads managed by local authorities?Conekicker wrote: ↑Wed Nov 10, 2021 09:32 Irish Traffic Signs Manual, Chapter 2, page 30
https://efb66ec2-0a40-4ea6-a27b-34f2730 ... f2eef1.pdf
Note that it only has 18 letters, not 26.
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Re: Irish road sign font
National Primary = N1 - N50A303Chris wrote: ↑Wed Nov 10, 2021 13:35Very interesting document and in the hierarchy they have National Primary and National Secondary. Are the former the same as our trunk roads and part of the Strategic Highway Network and the latter as our primary roads managed by local authorities?Conekicker wrote: ↑Wed Nov 10, 2021 09:32 Irish Traffic Signs Manual, Chapter 2, page 30
https://efb66ec2-0a40-4ea6-a27b-34f2730 ... f2eef1.pdf
Note that it only has 18 letters, not 26.
National Secondary = N51 - N99
In mapping, the former are usually shown as green, the latter as red. However on the ground both are signed with green signs with yellow numbers. Someone from Ireland will have to speak to the funding arrangements.
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Re: Irish road sign font
Cheers Chris, all very intrestingChris Bertram wrote: ↑Wed Nov 10, 2021 13:46National Primary = N1 - N50A303Chris wrote: ↑Wed Nov 10, 2021 13:35Very interesting document and in the hierarchy they have National Primary and National Secondary. Are the former the same as our trunk roads and part of the Strategic Highway Network and the latter as our primary roads managed by local authorities?Conekicker wrote: ↑Wed Nov 10, 2021 09:32 Irish Traffic Signs Manual, Chapter 2, page 30
https://efb66ec2-0a40-4ea6-a27b-34f2730 ... f2eef1.pdf
Note that it only has 18 letters, not 26.
National Secondary = N51 - N99
In mapping, the former are usually shown as green, the latter as red. However on the ground both are signed with green signs with yellow numbers. Someone from Ireland will have to speak to the funding arrangements.
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Re: Irish road sign font
Loanwords don't tend to arise on road signs, mostly these are placenames or a limited set of phrases. When you have a loan word that might be on a road sign, a spelling is already established e.g. tacsaíRichardA626 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 10, 2021 10:43 It seems some letters aren't used in Irish Gaelic, even on loan words.
No, both are funded the Transport Infrastructure Ireland (formerly National Roads Authority), although the local authorities do much of the management
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Re: Irish road sign font
You could possibly extract at least some of the letters from the various DWG Working Drawings with a little patience:Nathan_A_RF wrote: ↑Wed Nov 10, 2021 16:34 Shame that's an image though, and not a raw file from a working drawing.
https://www.trafficsigns.ie/working-drawings-1
For example, WK 090 to 099 in the Chapter 8 files have a good selection of the letters.
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Re: Irish road sign font
And Xmas is spelt Nollaig.
It is essentially an adapted italicised form of Transport. All N road funding is central, but maintenance, especially of National Secondary Roads (N51 upwards) is often contracted out to county councils.
It is essentially an adapted italicised form of Transport. All N road funding is central, but maintenance, especially of National Secondary Roads (N51 upwards) is often contracted out to county councils.
Re: Irish road sign font
I do think the 1977-89 style looked a lot better though. Pity that system was not developed in favour of what exists now.
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Re: Irish road sign font
I also prefer the original Worboys-influenced road signage from its introduction in 1977 to 1989, after which Gaelic placenanes etc were italicised.
Here’s a photo I took a couple of days ago - it has to be one of the last existing original 1977 green road signs. Here on the Stillorgan Dual Carriageway at Donnybrook in Dublin 4, near the church.
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It’s a route confirmatory sign (excuse the graffiti) but interestingly it has no distances in kilometres to the destinations on the sign.
EDIT: As per usual for SABRE, it’s deemed to be too big despite repeated attempts to trim it down. Not faffing around for ages like I did earlier trying to upload it....
Here’s a photo I took a couple of days ago - it has to be one of the last existing original 1977 green road signs. Here on the Stillorgan Dual Carriageway at Donnybrook in Dublin 4, near the church.
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It’s a route confirmatory sign (excuse the graffiti) but interestingly it has no distances in kilometres to the destinations on the sign.
EDIT: As per usual for SABRE, it’s deemed to be too big despite repeated attempts to trim it down. Not faffing around for ages like I did earlier trying to upload it....
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Re: Irish road sign font
There are a few original signs down the side streets off the N11, but not many green ones.
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That’s the one! Still standing in place after nearly 45 years.
Of course, the road is no longer classified as the N11 at this spot - now the R138.
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Re: Irish road sign font
Here are the many side road examples, note the numerals are not Transport, Ireland had a combo of the MoT and Transport (there were flat top 3s used on some of these signs).Enceladus wrote: ↑Thu Nov 18, 2021 01:54
That’s the one! Still standing in place after nearly 45 years.
Of course, the road is no longer classified as the N11 at this spot - now the R138.
https://goo.gl/maps/DanF1bU3foorrSjf9
https://goo.gl/maps/2VVgQp3eyHTaFgQM7
https://goo.gl/maps/iwveMzxDPiTPbQYZ9
https://goo.gl/maps/uQHSQxtHq8SUv5Ge7 in comparison modern Irish signs look too cartoonish for me. It's a shame because the system itself is very good, the design is just lacking.
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There was a proposal in 2013 from Irish-language group, Conradh na Gaeilge, to amend the font and use different colours for the English and Irish text: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland ... 587458?a=b
Personally I liked the idea, though it seems to have gone nowhere. The use of a separate colour allows me to easily tune out the 'other' language. It's a similar principal to the wayfinding signage at Dublin Airport.
Personally I liked the idea, though it seems to have gone nowhere. The use of a separate colour allows me to easily tune out the 'other' language. It's a similar principal to the wayfinding signage at Dublin Airport.
Re: Irish road sign font
Voilà. Based on the UK's TSRGD character set of course. Letters taken from either PDFs or DWGs, with non-Irish characters added. Someone would need to make a font file from it though...Conekicker wrote: ↑Wed Nov 10, 2021 19:52You could possibly extract at least some of the letters from the various DWG Working Drawings with a little patience:Nathan_A_RF wrote: ↑Wed Nov 10, 2021 16:34 Shame that's an image though, and not a raw file from a working drawing.