Template for making 24 in by 24 in (600 mm by 600 mm) Tennessee State Route shield, made to the specifications of the standard drawing. Uses the Roadgeek 2005 fonts. (United States law does not permit the copyrighting of typeface designs, and the fonts are meant to be copies of a U.S. Government-produced work anyway.) To create a shield using this template:
Download this SVG.
Open the SVG in an SVG editor and change the numbering.
Convert the text to a path and save as a basic SVG.
Upload the new SVG to Wikimedia Commons in the format "Secondary Tennessee X.svg", where X is the route number.
This file is in the public domain because it is prescribed by the Tennessee Supplement to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, sign number T-S-8. The Tennessee Supplement states on page 1 that "The current edition of the United States Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways (MUTCD), 2009 Edition, is hereby adopted", in the legislation as of July 2012. The federal MUTCDstates specifically on page I-1 that:
Any traffic control device design or application provision contained in this Manual shall be considered to be in the public domain. Traffic control devices contained in this Manual shall not be protected by a patent, trademark, or copyright, except for the Interstate Shield and any other items owned by FHWA.
No provisions of the supplement supersede this provision of the MUTCD.
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