Talk:Circular highway shield

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[edit] Shield use in Wikipedia

There are a lot of libraries being used:

  1. Scott5114's SVGs
  2. User:Fredddie's PNGs (see List of Iowa state highways)
  3. User:SPUI's new SVGs, on Commons
  4. The Kentucky Wikiproject PNGs (which use the wrong font)
  5. And I've just discovered some more at User:Atanamir/asdfasdf.

We have way too many of these. Could we get consensus on one library, and stick with it? (I personally like SPUI's the best so far.) Scott5114 20:01, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

All of mine can be deleted once we get a replacement for 77H. Someone should list these at images for deletion. Scott5114 23:13, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Circular shields in .png format

See List of Iowa state highways for a list of what's available.

  • Note that the fonts are different in order to fit more digits on the shield.
    • Single digit signs are Series D
    • Double digit signs are Series C
    • Triple digit signs are Series B

[edit] Circular shields in .svg format

See commons:circle signs for a complete listing.

  • All use Roadgeek Series D font.

[edit] New SVGs

I've made a set of 0-99 and some prefixes and suffixes at commons:circle signs. I'm planning on doing ovals (like [1]) for 1XX and the other New Jersey 3-digit routes. What else do people want done? --SPUI (talk) 20:35, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

This looks good, thanks. One change I'd suggest be made to the SVG code, however, is that the width and height attributes to the <svg> tag be removed. This then produces a dynamicly sized SVG which can be resized by the client browser as needed. See the recent discussion at Talk:SVG for more info. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 21:33, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm making them in Adobe Illustrator, and have no knowledge of the code. If you'd like to remove those attributes, feel free; I don't really see the use, as we're always telling it what size to display at anyway. --SPUI (talk) 22:24, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
That is for browsers that can actually render the SVG (Firefox 1.5, etc.). I ran into a problem though. At this point, it will actually be a hinderance to remove those attributes since it will screw up Wikimedia's SVG -> PNG renderer. It will render all images 256x256 which sucks for images that are not 1:1 aspect ratio. So ignore my advise until that renderer gets fixed. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 00:22, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Oklahoma tends to make the lettered suffixes smaller than the numbers [2] and use the ellipse for 2 digits with suffix [3]. Not sure how other states do this though - perhaps there should be alternate versions? We should try to get some feedback from the people at the KY WikiProject too. Good work...saves me quite a bit of time. (Feel free to take the suffixed ones I've uploaded that you don't have and put them with yours on the Commons.) Scott5114 19:46, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
I noticed with the 3-digit ovals, some of the numbers touch. The 140 series shows this perfectly. --Tim 06:30, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Yeah - unfortunately I didn't make them too well. --SPUI (T - C - RFC) 21:44, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Comparing dimensions

Side Number height Circle radius Corner radius Long side Method of widening1 Notes on suffixes Other notes
Delaware mainly oval, but there's at least one circle at [4] specs don't seem to be online
Iowa April 15, 2003 metric and English 610 mm (24") 1 digit: 305 mm (12") D
2 digits: 305 mm (12") C
3 digits: 305 mm (12") B or 254 mm (10") B		 270 mm (10.625") 28 mm (1.5") N/A N/A
Kentucky looks like oval specs don't seem to be online
Mississippi October 1, 1998 metric and English 600 mm (24") 300 mm (12") D 275 mm (11") 38 mm (1.5") 750 mm (30") ellipse
New Jersey (from photos) 24" 12" D 11.5"? 1.5"? looks like some of each specs don't seem to be online
Oklahoma 1999 610 mm (24") 305 mm (12") D 292 mm (11.5") 38 mm (1.5") 762 mm (30") oval Oklahoma is switching to a new shield.
Vermont August 8, 1995 24" 12" D 11" 1.5" 30" oval
Virginia N/A? specs don't seem to be online
West Virginia September 30, 1977 (specs for green signs only?!? or is there really no border? very possible - [5] [6] [7] - note that standalone shields for county routes are very rare) 24" 1-2 digit: 12"D
3 digit: 12"C		 12" unknown, but not 0 30" ellipse
  1. oval means the two halves of the circle are split and joined with horizontal straight lines; ellipse means that there is no straight section