Well sure, but the summer actually makes up for it.

(Personally: I’m from Finland, have had depression with seasonal pattern. Winters aren’t that bad, early/late winter sucks though. Psychochemically, because the day length is noticeably changing and sleeping patterns get disturbed. Socially, because all sidewalks and walking paths get really slippery no matter how much sand and gravel they put there and going outside gets a bit scarier.)

As I understood it the typeface is distributed this way because the roadsign makers will handle the letters as graphic elements, not text.

And I think someone actually unofficially adapted it as a font at some point.