Tratex

Sans-serif typeface

Tratex

Category	Sans-serif
Classification	Geometric sans-serif
Designer(s)	Karl-Gustav Gustafson
Foundry	Vägverket

Sample

Tratex (earlier called GePos) is a geometric sans-serif typeface family for road signs in Sweden. It was developed for maximal readability in traffic, and designed by Karl-Gustaf Gustafsson (known as Kåge Gustafsson).^[1]

Since 2014, Tratex has also been used on road signs in the Swedish-speaking autonomous region of Åland in Finland.^[2]

Tratex also contains Sami characters. It is free to download and use for illustrations and prints.

References

^ GP: I djungeln av vägvisare Archived 2012-10-12 at the Wayback Machine (in Swedish), read May 30, 2013.
^ "LANDSKAPSFÖRORDNING om ändring av landskapsförordningen om vägmärken" (PDF).

External links

Tratex on dafont.com
Tratex download (in Swedish)

Traffic signs

Signs

Priority signs	Priority to the right Stop sign (all way) Give Way / Yield sign Filter in turn
Vienna Convention Groups	Warning sign Priority signs Prohibitory traffic sign Mandatory sign Special regulation sign Information sign Direction, position, or indication sign

By country

Africa	Angola Botswana Mauritius Namibia South Africa Tanzania Uganda
Asia	Armenia Azerbaijan Bangladesh Cambodia China Hong Kong Macau Cyprus Georgia India Indonesia Iran Israel Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Laos Malaysia Mongolia Nepal Pakistan Philippines Saudi Arabia Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam
Europe	Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Malta Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Serbia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom Gaelic-speaking Scotland Wales
North America	Canada Cuba Jamaica Mexico United States Puerto Rico Central America (SICA) Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua
Oceania	Australia New Zealand
South America	Argentina Buenos Aires Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador
Former countries	Soviet Union Traffic signs in post-Soviet states

Lights

Typefaces

International conventions

Geneva
Vienna
- Traffic
- Road signs

National standards

Comparisons

Comparison of Asian road signs
Comparison of European road signs
Comparison of MUTCD-influenced traffic signs
Comparison of traffic signs in English-speaking territories

Typography

Page

Paragraph

Alignment
Leading
River
Runaround
Widows and orphans
- runt

Character

Typeface anatomy	Counter Diacritics Dingbat Glyph Ink trap Ligature Rotation Subscript and superscript Swash Text figures Tittle
Capitalization	All caps Camel case Initial Letter case Small caps Snake case Title case
Visual distinction	Italics Oblique Bold Color printing Underline Blackboard bold Blackletter
Horizontal aspects	Figure space Kerning Letter-spacing Sentence spacing Space Thin space
Vertical aspects	Ascender Baseline Body height Cap height Descender Median Overshoot x-height

Typeface
classifications

Roman type	Serif Antiqua Didone slab serif Sans-serif
Blackletter type	Fraktur Rotunda Schwabacher
Gaelic type	Insular Uncial
Specialist	Record type Display typeface script fat face reverse-contrast