Am Thu, 29 Mar 2018 11:30:50 -0400, schrieb Jonathan N. Little:

Not all fonts can be embedded.
It depends on the rights for a particular font.

On just that offshoot tangential subject of our road-sign font-choice
legalities, we have that completely under control since the TrueType Fonts
we used are freely distributable as long as the document that distributes
them mentions the copyright line.

Since multiple people worked on this file, we had to have the legalities
under control, where we have an entire page for fonts in the document that
I cut and paste here for the tribal knowledge archives to benefit from the
research we did on font distribution.

This document has the entire font set embedded on Windows for:
Roadgeek Series B Regular

Road sign fonts are tested under real-world conditions for specific things
such as halation, night-time and speed legibility (especially when tight
interstices are involved), cutout-integrity, removal of tiny notches in
joints of the letterforms, negative spacing compactness (affecting
legibility of signs in negative-contrast color orientations), common
symbols, etc., all resulting in an increase in accuracy, viewing distance,
and reaction time.

The official USA roadsign font is FHWA Series Gothic which isn't
commercially available.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Gothic

Another recently used but then deprecated US road sign font is ¡Clearview¢
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearview_(typeface)

A common USA Gothic-look-alike freely distributable font is ¡Roadgeek¢
http://www.fontspace.com/michael-d-adams/roadgeek-2005

In Germany (& in parts of Continental Europe) they use ¡DIN 1451¢ fonts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_1451

The Mac ships native with that actual font, which on the Mac is simply
named¡DIN¢¢
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...uded_with_OS_X

The latest Win10 ships with a DIN-look-alike font named ¡Bahnschrift¢
(which may or may not be embeddable)
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexp...uild-16273-pc/

In the UK, the commonly used road sign font is named ¡Transport¢
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_(typeface)

Windows MS Office can embed the entire font set which works for Windows.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...-in-powerpoint

Mac MS Office can not embed fonts & also can not read embedded fonts.
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html

The Mac also has an issue seeing the DIN font (see the Usenet url for
complete details).
Sierra https://support.apple.com/HT206872
Mavericks: https://support.apple.com/HT201375

Highway Gothic look-alike fonts are available at cost he
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/pixymbols/highway-gothic/

Highway Gothic look-alike fonts seem to be available for free he
http://www.dafont.com/highway-gothic.font

Clearview is only available at cost (AFAIK):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearview_(typeface)

Roadgeek is available online for free in many places, for example he
http://www.fontspace.com/michael-d-adams/roadgeek-2005