Tern (typeface)

{{Short description|Sans-serif typeface used on road signs in Austria and Slovakia}}

{{Infobox typeface

| image = Tern font example.svg

| name = Tern

| style = Sans-serif

| releasedate = 2008

| foundry = International Institute for Information Design

| variations = TernVMS (Variable-message sign)

| website = https://iiidre.weebly.com/#/

}}

Tern is a sans-serif typeface, which is used on traffic signs in Austria and Slovakia.

The typeface has been officially adopted as road sign typeface in Austria in 2013,{{cite web |title=292. Verordnung der Bundesministerin für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie, mit der die Verordnung über Straßenverkehrszeichen (Straßenverkehrszeichenverordnung 1998 – StVZVO 1998) geändert wird (1. Novelle zur StVZVO 1998) |url=https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/BgblAuth/BGBLA_2013_II_292/BGBLA_2013_II_292.pdfsig |access-date=15 March 2023 |language=de |date=3 October 2013}} although it was already in use since 2010 and replaced the former Austria typeface.{{cite web |title=Wie man »Salzburg« neuerdings schreibt |url=https://www.diepresse.com/581888/wie-man-salzburg-neuerdings-schreibt |website=Die Presse |access-date=15 March 2023 |language=de |date=18 July 2010}}

The development of the typeface started in 2005 as part of the sixth Framework Program for Research and Technological Development.{{cite journal |last1=Simlinger |first1=Peter |last2=Egger |first2=Stefan |last3=Galinski |first3=Christian |last4=IIID |last5=INFOTERM |title=Proposal on unified pictograms, keywords, bilingual verbal messages and typefaces for VMS in the TERN |date=January 2008 |url=https://visys.pro/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/61125-insafetyd2-3_iiid.pdf |access-date=19 March 2023}}{{cite web |author1=Michael Smuc |author2=Florian Windhager |author3=Karin Siebenhandl |author4=Stefan Egger |title=Impaired Visibility Typeface Test - Report |url=https://www.iiid.net/SOMS/InSafety_IVT_Report_Final.pdf |access-date=16 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140716215939/https://www.iiid.net/SOMS/InSafety_IVT_Report_Final.pdf |archive-date=16 July 2014 |date=2007-08-31}} The typeface was developed together with a set of symbols, of which 65 were adopted in 2020 as new symbols for the road signs in Austria.{{cite web |last1=Egger |first1=Stefan |title=Tern Symbole für österreichische Verkehrsbeschilderung übernommen |url=https://visys.pro/2020/04/09/tern-symbole-fur-osterreichische-verkehrsbeschilderung-ubernommen/ |access-date=15 March 2023 |language=de |date=9 April 2020}}