Originally Posted by
drewguy
The font was designed by Saarinen, the architect of the airport.
Always struck me as kind of futuristic.
I love the Dulles font. It's not the most legible, and they've moved away from it a bit for other directional signage, but still very prominent in the main terminal.
The original signs were created with the terminal building by Saarinen's firm; the airports authority had to hire a typeface designer later to digitize and modernize it from the old blueprints:
Schwartzco Inc.