Malaysia Street Sign

Different colors represent different types of roads

  • Blue represents federal, state, and municipal roads that are free of charge.
  • Green represents toll roads or highways.


Different types of highways have different route letters and numbers

  • Highways are all started with E.
  • Federal roads just use numbers.
  • State roads use all letters and numbers except E.


The different colors of the words in the street sign indicate that it is a road name or a region name

  • Yellow represents the road name.
  • White represents the area name.


The destinations in the street signs are arranged from top to bottom by distance

  • This means that the name of the top destination is the farthest away.


Different colored street signs represent different types of destinations

  • Green font in street sign on white background (tourist attraction)
  • White font in street sign on brown background (tourist attraction)
  • Yellow font in street sign on green background (government agency)
  • Black font in street sign on white background (town or other township)