If Wile E. Coyote had only used ClearviewHwy, he might have fooled ol' Roadrunner for sure! But your sign looks quite authentic :)

Thanks, Deborah. I'm still working on my technique for drawing the mouth of a tunnel on a rock face. ;-)

I believe that Marylanders were the first who got to see Clearview technology.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/covefort.cfm

In July 2004, the Maryland State Highway Administration installed a sign in the median of I-70 just west of the Baltimore Beltway:

Columbus 420 miles
St. Louis 845 miles
Denver 1700 miles
Cove Fort 2200 miles

In the October 23, 2004, edition of The Baltimore Sun, Robert Benjamin explained that the sign resulted from a concern about safety "and a touch of geographic whimsy":

Maryland highway engineers erected it to test a new type style on road signs; it's called Clearview, and leaving aside a lot of technicalities, it's supposed to be a lot more legible at night, particularly for elderly motorists. Given that the sign was a test, engineers didn't want it to provide "critical information, like the next exit," says Valerie Edgar of the State Highway Administration. So Columbus, St. Louis, Denver ...

Cove Fort's inclusion on the Maryland sign already paid off for state engineers by prompting all sorts of calls, giving them openings to grill the curious about the sign's visibility. That's no longer needed; the sign passed muster. The state may even add a Maryland locale to it. But, we're assured, Cove Fort will remain.

I dropped more than my gum.

Woah.

I'd like to buy a "W" please...$525?!?! No, wait...I'll take the whole family then, for $795. But not the light weights. No, no. Only the heavy weights. This whole font "shopping" experience has me puzzled. 8-}

It confused me, too. I guess they figure if we're not smart enough to place an order, we probably shouldn't be making highway signs in the first place. ;-)

Oh, now, what kind of logic is that? ;-)

I never really cared that I didn't know the hiway sign font. I still don't but am glad to know why. :>]

Well, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him care about kerning.

Cute. I think we have some rigs running on that road.

There are at least a few signs in the Odessa TxDOT district on I-10 or I-20 that appear tob using alternative typefaces (ClearviewHwy Narrow?) that don't look as good as your Photoshop work.

Now can you Photoshop a "Speed Limit 80" sign for I-20 east of Ward County?

Now can you Photoshop a "Speed Limit 80" sign for I-20 east of Ward County?

What? And slow down all those California drivers?!

Apparently Georgia uses the Series E-Modified font. I always thought the shortened 'tails' on the 'g' and the 'y' looked kind of funny. They're perfectly readable, so they only look funny if you're a geek like me that looks at them closely.

Have you seen Kurumi's SignMaker? It's fun to play with, and uses the official E-Modified font. Maybe not as cool as the new one, but 'free' is a good price. :)

Stephen, I figured somebody had created something like "SignMaker," but I was too lazy to look for it. Thanks for the tip; it's a really cool app, and I'll definitely bookmark it for potential future use.

Of course, in this case I wanted to use an actual highway sign, set in the west Texas scenery, to achieve the full effect of...well, whatever the effect is of having a sign out in the middle of nowhere.