Y'know those electronic signs on the highway that have jokes or travel info or legitimately useful information (but usually jokes) on them?

Those are called Changeable Message Signs (what the MUTCD calls them), or Dynamic Message Signs (what the manufacturers call them), or Variable Message Signs (what Wikipedia calls them), or one of a billion other names.

Over the past several months, I have made a lot of them. Watch my spiral into Daktronics-flavored autism here.

the beginning

there's a crash on i-40 east near mebane nc (crash location)

if not for gps, we may have gotten stuck in the traffic (3 out of 4 lanes closed)

and it was a little scary going from 75 to 5 mph (pretty fast to pretty slow km/h) in 10 seconds, the car behind us likely agreeing

there was one sign warning of the crash, 20+ miles before, at an unrelated construction site

this is why we should install more cms (changeable message sign) displays

(the big things over the highway that sometimes display useful information, sometimes jokes, oftentimes nothing)

if there were more cms displays, they could have one that displayed:

CRASH AT

EXIT ###

X MILES AHEAD

RIGHT 3 LANES

CLOSED

BE PREPARED

TO STOP

and if they're feeling spendy, they could also put some beacons on the sign (despite the mutcd recommending against it) to really get people's attention (beacons would only flash when important messages being displayed, i.e. not when jokes displayed)

might create a visual representation of that when i get home

look forward to that in 8 hours [because home is ohio and current location is north carolina] ["home :)" was sent at 8:24 PM, initial message was sent at 11:47 AM]

font posting

idk about you but i just love spending several hours trying to recreate a font only to find that someone already did all the work for me and i wasted my time

in summary

fontstruct has a stupid line spacing problem that i dont

because im better

https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/download/2318283

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