Efficient and gruff, Interstate has become a favorite for branding, packaging, publications, and more. The family is a reinterpretation of Highway Gothic, which has been the official typeface for American highway signage for decades. Its design is ultimately based on signage alphabets developed in the late 1940s by Dr. Theodore Forbes, assisted by J.E. Penton and E.E. Radek. The family was expanded to include full support for Central and Eastern Europe languages, as well as Cyrillic and Greek.