Introducing Burlingame, A Safer Font For Your Dashboard

After working with MIT to test typefaces side by side for readability, designers at Monotype have created what they think is the most readable, safest possible font for drivers.

In an attempt to appear manly and aggressive, many car dashboards use a font called Eurostile. It's boxy, robotic, and has a futuristic edge. It can be found in the opening credits for sports programming and science fiction TV shows. It's also incredibly difficult to read. "It's so pervasive," Carl Crossgrove, a senior type designer at Monotype told Fast Company, "and it's so not legible." The "3" looks like the "B," which looks like the "8," all of which is made worse when a car is moving at 60 miles per hour and the entire dash vibrates.

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