It’s been a year since D.C. started a federally mandated replacement of all of its street signs, but the city still can’t seem to get the sign’s new design right.

As we wrote early last year, D.C. has slowly started changing out its traditional all-caps street signs for new signs with a new font and lower-case lettering. (Why? Studies confirm that mixed-case lettering on signs like the ones we’re going to get is easier to see from further away, allowing drivers to prepare better for turns.) The process hasn’t been particularly smooth, though—eagle-eyed font- and design-conscious residents, including our own Andrew Wiseman, reported seeing signs with multiple fonts and letter sizes.

City officials explained that the issue had to do with federal format not working well with the type of signs D.C. uses, but promised a year ago that the problem would be fixed and an erroneous signs would be replaced. By and large, they were.

Well, more mistakes seem to be creeping into new street signs that have been going up recently. In one case late last week, Wiseman snapped a picture of a Rhode Island Avenue NE street sign that used a new font—but in all-caps. D.C. Department of Transportation spokeswoman Monica Hernandez confirmed late last week that the Rhode Island Avenue sign wasn’t right and would be replaced.

But that’s not all. Over the weekend I snapped a few shots of signs along Sherman Avenue and Columbia Road NW; between two and three variations of both signs were evident, and on some blocks you could spot the same road name written and formatted in three different ways.

As to why the city seems unable to stick to a single format for new signs, Hernandez only said that there are a variety of contractors working alongside the city’s sign-making shop on the signs. “It’s an issue that we are correcting,” she said, noting that the city would continue working on standardizing the format for the signs.

Let’s hope so. But in the meantime, a quick editorial aside: I still can’t get behind the mixed-caps signs. Do I look more closely at them while driving? Sure—because I have to strain my eyes to read them.