{"id":8261,"date":"2017-02-06T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8261"},"modified":"2017-02-06T01:46:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T07:46:05","slug":"sign-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/sign-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8262\" alt=\"IF\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SignInflation.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SignInflation.jpg 450w, https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SignInflation-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>November 24, 2016:<\/strong> Both existing and replacement shields for US 30\/218 at the Atkins corner (old IA 279) were up on Thanksgiving weekend. I&#8217;m guessing these were the last of the day before break.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A signage contract let last year called for replacing shields along US 30 in eastern Iowa. The replacement process includes increasing the size of the shields on the four-lane portions of 30, including changing the US 151\/218 shields to the wide version. These three-digit shields use Series C, which is a significant improvement over a larger Series B (the &#8220;218&#8221; in the small shield above, which works just fine for a square) \u2014 but then the two-digit 30 is in Series D, which again makes those digits wider typography-wise.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s only one three-digit US highway in Iowa that does not have at least one 1 in it (275), so if we&#8217;re going to bump up the size, Series D for everything would create better visual consistency. It looks like there would be space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 24, 2016: Both existing and replacement shields for US 30\/218 at the Atkins corner (old IA 279) were up on Thanksgiving weekend. I&#8217;m guessing these were the last of the day before break. A signage contract let last year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/sign-inflation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8263,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8261\/revisions\/8263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}