I made several road signs for a local charity. Here’s how I did it.

I wanted the signs I was making to be as legible as possible from the road. So I went with a font called ClearviewHwy, which was designed for that purpose by replacing the font known as “FHWA Standard Alphabets for Traffic Control Devices”. I then remixed the font into a stencil, with lines cut through the shapes so we wouldn’t lose the negative space in letters like O or A.

I remade the logo given to me in vector format. I also had a picture of my daughter holding an American flag during Independence Day, and vectorized that also. I printed this stuff out in large-scale, and cut out the stencils in posterboard. Then, a friend brought 5 massive white-washed plywood boards to my parents house, where we spraypainted them on the ground.

I’ve never done anything like this before, and it was a blast.