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License information for the Roadgeek 2005 fonts is here. Short version -- they're free for recreational or hobby use (e.g. development of roadgeek websites, amateur comedic Photoshopping of pictures, etc.).
In the past, when I hosted many exit lists on this site, one of the biggest annoyances I had was in finding realistic fonts to use in the creation of graphics and to display on the webpages. The official FHWA fonts, "FHWA Highway Gothic Series B/C/D/E/E(M)/F" were not easily available, and freeware clones were either hard to find, or were just not quite right.
For that reason, I created the Roadgeek fonts in 2000, based on FHWA specifications. The original Roadgeek 2000 fonts were released before I was completely done with them, but they've seem to caught on. I didn't want to go back to finish those fonts for fear of having competing, possibly not-quite-compatible, versions of these fonts floating around the web.
In 2004, the FHWA approved a new set of fonts, Clearview, for optional use on the U.S.'s highway signs. These fonts are supposed to be slightly more legible under less-than-ideal circumstances than the older Highway Gothic fonts. As Clearview-fonted signs started sprouting up around the country, there was disgruntlement within the roadgeek community that no similar font was available for the practice of our, um, art. So I got to work and put together the Roadgeek 2005 series of fonts.
The Roadgeek 2005 font family is made up of 27 fonts:
Roadgeek 2005 Series B/C/D/E/E(M)/F fonts are intended to closely approximate Highway Gothic fonts
Roadgeek 2005 Series 1B/2B/3B/4B/5B/6B are intended to closely approximate the new fonts, and are inteded for dark-on-light background signs.
Roadgeek 2005 Series 1W/2W/3W/4W/5W/5WR/6W are close kin to the -B fonts, but are intended for light-on-dark background signs.
Roadgeek 2005 Transport Heavy and Transport Medium should approximate the fonts used on British highway signs.
Roadgeek 2005 Engschrift and Mittelschirft should approximate the fonts used on German highway signs.
Roadgeek 2005 Arrows 1&2, Icons, and SignBacks are intended to help you in approximating U.S. highway signs, and are based on sign specifications from the Nebraska online MUTCD/SHS manuals.
I was going to expand the Roadgeek 2005 collection to include additional, primarily recreation-oriented icons. However, a bit of web-searching turned up the fact that the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources already has a font that does just that. Rather than duplicate their work, I figured that I'd just link to it instead.
I'm also keeping the older Roadgeek 2000 fonts up online. Although you should really consider using the 2005 series rather than the 2000 series, many roadgeek websites use the 2000 fonts.