Tipography

Read this article in WIRED magazine:
http://www.wired.com/2015/12/canadas-new-typeface-unifies-the-countrys-many-languages/#slide-2

Answer the following questions:

1. If the United States had a national typeface, could  it be the Highway Gothic? Why?
2. The new Canadian typography unites the Latin characters of French and English. Why does the article mention these two languages?
3. When was the first Latin character typeface created in Canada? Why was it transformed in the late 1990s?

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