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  Which Font for Health & Safety Signage?

  Posted by John Cooper on 18 January 2011 at 22:30

  Subject says it all.

  I have the H&S CD from Impact but occasionally I’m asked to produce ‘one offs’ that are not in the library.

  So, which Font for Health & Safety Signage?

  Cheers

  John

  Ivan Morley replied 14 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Kevin Flowers

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  18 January 2011 at 23:20

  John
  i normally use something like Arial or Helvetica Condensed just aiming for good size text allowing good readability.

  Kev

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  Gareth Hankinson

  Member

  19 January 2011 at 11:35

  We use Helvetica 🙂

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  Ivan Morley

  Member

  19 January 2011 at 13:07

  From BS5499-1:2002 (British Standard for Safety Signs)

  12.1 Font
  The font used shall be either:
  a) Helvetica medium, as shown in Figure 9; or
  b) another sans serif font with the following characteristics:
  1) widths of strokes throughout the letters constant within 10 %;
  2) widths of strokes at least one sixth of the letter height;
  3) width of the lower case letter “x” not less than 70 % of the letter height;
  4) not condensed, expanded, italic, script, outline or shaded;
  5) letters individually formed and not joined together.

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