Show us your... roadsigns!!!

[timmie 988]

Well... look what I have here! It's my first attempt at making a roadsign.

 

 

Second attempt:

 

[godrock24 12]

[godrock24 12]

[Linoa06 1,374]

Refering to my Cities in Motion Tamriel Project (you can find a road map or on page 34 of the map thread)

 

 

Motorway signs (always using a blue backdrop; destinations that are reached using motorways are shown on a blue backdrop). It is customary to name highways with a A name, but also with their name (historical or not : for instance the A82 is the Transniben Turnpike). Distance is always in km; Cyrodiil doesn't use Imperial units.

 

 

B-Roads (Federal Network) are roads of national and local importance, that are not up to Motorway standards. Unlike England, both networks are fairly consistent on their own. B-Road signs are yellow; destinations reachable by trunk roads are also shown on yellow on other signs. Here is a junction sign on B78 (which is in the German/Argonian speaking part of Cyrodiil - the reason why German represents Argonian is to reflect possible linguistic trends across Cyrodiil and to highlights the dissociation between any real-life culture and the TES universe. Oh, yes, I'm a linguist. )

 

 

C-Roads are local roads. They are named per Land/Province, and within each the first digit refers to a specific Prefecture (for instance, C113 can refer to a road in the Cropsford Prefecture, but also in the Applewatch Prefecture) but most of the time they are left unsigned. There are also D categories (managed on a county basis, so the administrative division under Prefecture) and U roads, which stand for Unsigned. There are also special F roads, which are forest treks carrying vehicular traffic, and W roads, which are alternative disruption routes; all these routes are shown on a white backdrop.

 

 

City entry signs are typically German they are always on a yellow backdrop. The signs will feature the town's name, as well as the county it is part of (or the Local Authority, for rural counties, District, for counties in the Prefectures of Aleshire, Westside or Molesey, or Free Independant City, for those consolidated city-county entities.) They also feature the name of the Prefecture, but not that of the Province. They may or may not also be signed with the number of the road they are placed on. Here are Leadworth (typical sign), Cropsford (not signed), and Border Watch (bilingual, as it is in Regierungsbezirk Dunkelforst). (Note how Border Watch's sign only features one rectangle, a specific norm of the Lower Nibenay)

 

 

 

[Markus J 242]

Here are just a few

 

 

[ThirtyThree 141]

From my CJ...

[RenoEdits 4]

I'd like to use this one for the Miami Region I downloaded from the STEX. Hopefully, I can get a feel for using gmax/SC4 BAT.

 

[TekindusT 3,809]

It definately looks cool! I like the font and the tropical feel it brings with that uncommon hue of green. Very nice.

[Googlefluff 55]

Before I came across this thread, I had never heard the term 'roadgeek' before. I've spent my entire life not knowing there was actually a term for it and other people like me! I just downloaded Inkscape and I'm going to make a few signs right now. I'll come back and post them by the end of the day to see if they're any good

 

EDIT: Here they are:

There isn't a lot of information on them since these are just two random city names I came up with on the fly (just got a new PC and don't have any decent cities in-game yet). I might take some real life signs and convert them but meh. I really enjoyed making these and definitely want to make some more. I'd love to put these in-game but I honestly have no clue how. Maybe someday if I get around to it.

 

So what do you guys think?

  Edited April 20, 2014 by Googlefluff  

[Sabretooth78 808]

Here are some that I created for my CJ:

 

County Routes (US MUTCD Standard):

 

 

State Routes (1-2 and 3 digit; my creation):

 

     

 

Federal Routes (1-2 and 3 digit; based on the US interstate shield):

 

     

 

And finally National Highway Routes (basically an Interstate/motorway) (1-2 and 3 digit; my creation):

 

     

[MandelSoft 2,770]

Before I came across this thread, I had never heard the term 'roadgeek' before. I've spent my entire life not knowing there was actually a term for it and other people like me! I just downloaded Inkscape and I'm going to make a few signs right now. I'll come back and post them by the end of the day to see if they're any good

 

EDIT: Here they are:

<SNIP>

There isn't a lot of information on them since these are just two random city names I came up with on the fly (just got a new PC and don't have any decent cities in-game yet). I might take some real life signs and convert them but meh. I really enjoyed making these and definitely want to make some more. I'd love to put these in-game but I honestly have no clue how. Maybe someday if I get around to it.

 

So what do you guys think?

For a first attempt with InkScape, this is pretty good work. A few tips:

- The arrows on the gantry signs look somehow not in the style of the rest of the arrows. I'd suggest to make them more fat or use other arrow styles altogether.

- I'd suggest to use a more desaturated shade of red.

[Googlefluff 55]

How's this?

You're definitely right about the arrows. These look a lot better.

 

My main region (Koher Soteto) is coming along so I might come back in a few days with some more complex signs.

[Durfsurn 539]

My first attempt at Adobe Illustrator. A modified version of Melbourne's route signage. 

-btw the thumbnails didn't update so click on the actual pics

-feel free to use them but remember to credit me

 

 

[TheCjm1999 11]

  

These are my very first attempts of roadsigns for my cities. I made them in 2012.

 

[nathanthemayor 1,262]

Ever since I retired my CJ, I have been inactive in making signs. However, I recreated a sign from my hometown of Fresno to reflect future highway chances(Such as the extension of CA-180 as a highway to I-5 and the conversion of CA-99 to I-7) and similar to Mandelsoft's style GIMPed it onto the real-life sign to see what it could look like in the future:

Maybe in the near future I may make some more from the Fresno area.....

[Simcitymaster13 27]

Made some highway road signs for a few of my cities in my region of the Commonwealth of Bretilla. I used Inkscape to make these signs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Liszak 48]

I just tried to recreate some romanian motorway sign...here's the first try.

 

 

And also the signs marking start and end of a settlement.

 

 

And here are a slightly remastered czech and austrian signs. Which are better in your opinion?

 

 

[ThirtyThree 141]

[Alejandro24 575]

This is my first try on roadsigns. I'm looking for examples to improve:

 

[SC4L0ver 394]

I see this thread is a bit dead, but anyway... Here are my road signs 

These are the road signs used in New Iberia, the country depicted in my CJ. 

These are motorway signs:

General motorway signs:

 

Main road signs:

Secondary road signage:

General main and secondary road signage:

Now, general road signs used in New Iberia:

 

[Alejandro24 575]

That's a really awesome work, very well done.

What are your resources (fonts, colors, shapes, etc...)?

[SC4L0ver 394]

That's a really awesome work, very well done.

What are your resources (fonts, colors, shapes, etc...)?

Thank you!! 

I used Adobe Illustrator to make the signs.

The font I used is Roadgeek Transport (Heavy for white over blue/green, medium for black over white). For the speed limit signs and other signs I used DIN 30640.

for the icons, I used the Roadgeek icons font, and other icons (mainly the general sign ones) I used SVG images (specially from the hundreds of road signs on Wikimedia Commons).

For the shapes, I used the draw ellipse and draw round cornered rectangle tool. For the round cornered triangles, I used a SVG road sign template and tweaked it to match the look of the other signs.

[peperodriguez2710 138]

This a real sign found in the Palma's belt freeway Ma-20. It's a typical spanish highway sign. 

My first try making signs, I know the arrows and exit symbols are pixeled, I had to made them by myself  (Someone knows where can I find decent exit symbols?) You can find the real sign here.

What do you think?

[SC4L0ver 394]

This a real sign found in the Palma's belt freeway Ma-20. It's a typical spanish highway sign. 

<SNIP>

My first try making signs, I know the arrows and exit symbols are pixeled, I had to made them by myself  (Someone knows where can I find decent exit symbols?) You can find the real sign here.

What do you think?

Buen trabajo!!! 

Really like your signs (you don't see Spanish signs everyday on ST ). For the arrows and symbols (exit sign, etc), I use SVG images, which look better and can be changed to any size without looking blurry or pixelated. However, few softwares can handle them (InkScape, Illustrator, for example). Here you can find Spanish signs in SVG format, including exit signs and stuff: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Señales_de_tráfico_de_indicación_de_España 

Hope I helped you with this 

  Edited July 1, 2015 by SC4L0ver  

[peperodriguez2710 138]

My first job with Illustratror!

Another Spanish (fictional now) portrating a road layout in my region. All arrows and symbols are hand-made.

What do you think?

Have a nice day! ^^

EDIT: I know that the exit panel is too big for that amount of text, it's intended to be overscaled, because it's common to see pannels like that in Spain.

  Edited October 26, 2015 by peperodriguez2710  

[peperodriguez2710 138]

Hi, I've recently made another sign, from my local beltway, too. I tried to make it look more realistic by adding it to a Street View pic, but it's not as seamless as yours 

Have a nice day!

[peperodriguez2710 138]

Seems I'm lonely here! 

Well, an "intelligent" electronic freeway sign I created yesterday. It's a mix between some different styles.

Have a good day!

 

[DavidDHetzel 1,816]

[austrolopitecusasul 3]

These are one of my signs, which font do look better? 

 

 

[SC4L0ver 394]

@austrolopitecusasul Definitely I would stick with DIN font (the one on the left). It looks more realistic.