NPS Rawlinson Roadway

NPS Rawlinson Roadway is an old-style serif typeface currently used on the United States National Park Service's road signs. It was created in 2000^[1] by Terminal Design to replace Clarendon. Type designer James Montalbano named the typeface after his wife's surname, as her father worked for the Forest Service.^[2]

NPS Rawlinson Roadway

Category	Serif
Designer(s)	James Montalbano
Commissioned by	National Park Service
Re-issuing foundries	Terminal Design
Design based on	Plantin, Sabon, Garamond
Also known as	NPS Rawlinson
Website	www.terminaldesign.com
Latest release version	2.0

Approximately 10–15% more compact than its predecessor, the typeface was found by the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute to increase readability by 11%.

Concurrent with NPS Rawlinson Roadway, the National Park Service uses Frutiger for applications requiring a sans-serif typeface.^[3]