Which Font for Health & Safety Signage?

[Kevin Flowers]

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

Kev

[Gareth Hankinson]

We use Helvetica 🙂

[Ivan Morley]

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.