Ralf Herrmann, the designer of Wayfinding Sans, started this project with extensive field studies, driving tens of thousands of miles to explore the legibility of road signage typefaces in dozens of countries around the world.

After building his own theoretical framework of relevant legibility parameters, the design process used a unique custom real-time simulation software, which could simulate difficult reading conditions (distance, fog, halation, positive/negative contrast) while the letters were actually being designed. This process made it possible to optimize even the tiniest details of each letter for maximum legibility. More…

Being made specifically for wayfinding purposes, this type family does not compromise on any aspect of legibility — and yet, the typeface is a beautiful, clean and modern sans serif. With its broad language support and the large number of available styles it is perfectly suitable for any possible signage project anywhere on the world.

In an independent empirical study at the University of Applied Sciences “htw” in Berlin different typefaces were recently tested when used on signs and Wayfinding Sans Pro was the winner in all conducted tests, being significantly more legible and therefore superior to all other styles of the tested typefaces.

See PDF specimen for more information: http://fonts.info/pub/pdf/wayfinding-sans-pro.pdf

Also check the PDF specimen if you are unsure about which package to choose. Wayfinding Sans Pro comes in 7 packages:

“Wayfinding Sans Single” only contains the main style “extended bold N”.

And then there are 3 packages depending on the width:

Basic (extended width)

Intermediate (extended + normal widths)

Complete (extended + normal + condensed widths)

Those packages come in a version A for single contrast and in a version B, if your signs contain positive and negative contrast.

The Demo version contains a reduced character set of 400 glyphs, without small caps, cyrillic, greek, additional figure sets and alternates. It still comes with the regular commercial license of fonts.info, which means the usage is not restricted to evaluation purposes. It can be used like any other commercial font.