Road signs in Malaysia

Road signs in Malaysia are standardised road signs similar to those used in Europe but with certain distinctions. Until the early 1980s, Malaysia closely practice in road sign design, with diamond-shaped warning signs and circular restrictive signs to regulate traffic. Signs usually use the Transport Heavy (cf. the second image shown to the right) font on non-tolled roads and highways. Tolled expressways signs use a font specially designed for the Malaysian Highway Authority (LLM) which is LLM Lettering. It has two type of typefaces, LLM Narrow and LLM Normal. Older road signs used the FHWA Series fonts (Highway Gothic) typeface also used in the United States, Canada, and Australia. Most road signs in Melaka and speed limit signs use Arial.
Malaysian traffic signs use Bahasa Melayu (Malay), the official and national language of Malaysia. However, English is also used for used at public places such as tourist attractions, airports, railway stations and immigration checkpoints. Both Malay and English are used in the road signs that are located along the Pengerang Highway (Federal Route 92), which links Kota Tinggi to Sungai Rengit in Johor state and Genting Sempah-Genting Highlands Highway which links Genting Sempah to Genting Highlands, which also have Chinese and Tamil on signs.
According to the road category under Act 333, the Malaysian Road Transport Act 1987, chapter 67, blue traffic signs are used for federal, state and municipal roads. Green signs are used for toll expressways or highways only. There are four major types of road signs in Malaysia. First is Warning Signs (Tanda Amaran), second is Prohibition Signs (Tanda Larangan), third is Mandatory Signs (Tanda Wajib) and fourth is Information Signs (Tanda Maklumat).
Expressways use letters E-- (Example: North–South Expressway Northern Route)
Exits numbers usually starts with the Expressway route number and then exit number (Example: West Coast Expressway West Coast Expressway Exit 23 Teluk Intan (Exit 3223))
Federal Roads only use numbers and digits, for example Federal Route 1 (Example: Federal Route 1). However, federal road numbers can also be added with the FT— prefix before the route number, which is normally used by the Malaysian Public Works Department (JKR) and the Royal Malaysia Police. For example, Federal Route 1 can also be written as Federal Route FT1. There are also service roads off of main federal roads that use letters after its main route (Example: FT 2A).
State roads use letters that correspond to each state. The state letter codes roughly matches the plate numbers prefix alphabet.
Malaysian warning signs are diamond-shaped or rectangular and are yellow and black or red and white in colour.
Malaysia prohibition signs are round with red outline and black pictogram.
Mandatory instruction signs are round with blue backgrounds and white pictogram. These are also used in signifying specific vehicle type lanes.
These signs show speed limit on roads.
The construction signs in Malaysia are diamond-shaped placed on rectangular sign and are orange and black in colour.
Malaysian information signs are blue.
Malaysian motorcycle lane signs are blue.
Expressway signs have a green background. If the sign is not located on an expressway but is leading to one, it will have a blue background with green box in it.
Outdated sign designs that are no longer in use.
Malaysian road signs are blue and used for federal, state and municipal roads.
As part of the Asian Highway Network.
Border signs in Malaysia are green for international and state and blue for district.
These are other important signs in Malaysia such as government institutions and tourist destinations.
Malaysian tourist destination signs are in maroon with white and black icons.
There is also a signs for weighing bridge.
Road name sign in Malaysia have many different colours and styles according the local authority to design with them.
Road markings in Malaysia primarily use thermoplastic and are white. Yellow markings are usually for road shoulders, construction or temporary markings and parking.
Centre lines divide the road into either direction.
Edge lines are located at the edges of a road, whether there is a median or pavement or not.
Lane dividers divide road into lanes according to its designated width.
Directional marking consists of arrows and lettering on the road.
These signs usually found at the bridge.
These signs usually found at the bridge.
Many expressways/highways has a border limit.