The typeface 'Transport' used in the UK seems to have solved most of the problems identified in this article. The article notes how good Transport is, but says

The typeface 'Transport' used in the UK seems to have solved most of the problems identified in this article. The article notes how good Transport is, but says it is too wide. I wonder if just reducing the spacing on Transport a little would have been a shortcut - the results appear remarkably similar to my eye. Wikipedia article on Transport: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_%28typeface%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_%28typeface%29