Britain Chose Lowercase Road Signs Before Testing Them

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Everyone repeats that British road signs use lowercase because lowercase is read faster than UPPERCASE. I went looking for the study behind that and found a chronology problem. The Anderson committee provisionally recommended lower case in October 1958, the signs went up on the Preston By-Pass that December, and the only controlled experiment ran in 1960 - after a Cambridge University Printer…

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