Designer(s) Delve Withrington Link overpassfont.org Classification Humanist Foundry Delve Fonts Date released 28 August 2015 | Website overpassfont.org Category Sans-serif Commissioned by Red Hat Software License SIL Open Font License | |
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Overpass is a digital typeface, closely related to the FHWA Series Highway Gothic fonts, a signage alphabet drawn for the United States Federal Highway Administration in 1949.
It was commissioned by Red Hat from designer Delve Withrington as a freely usable replacement for Interstate, another Highway Gothic adaptation, which is used by Red Hat as its corporate typeface. Red Hat created the family as a freely redistributable alternative, since it does not own all rights to Interstate. It continues to use Interstate, a much larger font family, on printed material.
Overpass currently is released with eight weights and obliques, as well as a monospaced font companion. Originally released in four weights, an expanded version was released in 2016.
References
Overpass (typeface) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA