About eighty years after the municipality of Vienna determined the appearance of the city's street signs, I started the initial work for the digitalisation of the Wiener Norm. After the first drafts it became clear that a simple vectorisation of the original drawings from 1923 would not result in a harmonious typeface. Hence, I used these drawings as a foundation for a re-design of this typeface. Wiener Norm has been adapted to meet the modern requirements of electronic typesetting, its character set has been significantly expanded, and it is available for download as an OpenType font under a Creative Commons license.
Wiener Norm is designed as a display font and is therefore best suited for large type sizes. The font contains the unicode blocks latin basic, latin-1 supplement und latin extended-A as well as some ligatures. In accordance with the supplement to the ISO/IEC 10646 standard, the german letter sharp S has been included as a standard Unicode character.