Acknowledgements

Sign designs and references

• The Federal Highway Administration’s Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, Part 8, Chapter 8B: Signs and Markings for highway-rail grade crossings — the source for what each sign means, where it goes, its code and its conventional size (Table 8B-1).
• FHWA’s Standard Highway Signs book, whose detail drawings the shared sign engine follows — the Crossbuck, the advance warning sign and the emergency notification sign are drawn from its official artwork.
• Signs on this site are for design, training, models and display. They aren’t certified for installation at any crossing.

Lettering

Legends are set in the Federal Highway Administration’s Standard Alphabets for Highway Signs (Series D), the same public letterforms the MUTCD specifies for these signs.

Weathered and rusty finishes

The idea for offering signs in different states of wear — a clean, brand-new sign by default, or a weathered or rusty one — came from the US Road Sign Generator on Superhive Market, whose clean, weathered and rusty material options inspired the Weathering and Rust sliders in our sign builder. Our version is drawn independently, as procedural SVG filters, so every finished sign is still a single vector file. Thank you for the idea.

Sibling sites

Railroad-Signs.work shares its sign engine with Road-Signs.work and Trail-Signs.work, listed with the rest of the family at the bottom of every page. See what’s new in the changelog.