Anthon said:I would use a different font: this one looks typewriter-ish. (serif)
Normally you would expect a silkscreen friendly font (sans serif) on a front panel of vintage equipment.
What's the idea with the "Off" position on the gain switch?BluegrassDan said:Take a look, gents. Let me know your thoughts.
Questions? Confusion? Suggestions?
He was right, serif is a relic of cursive handwriting. Having been formally trained as a draftsman, I have abandoned cursive years ago, because it's less legible. I used to favour Helvetica for front panel legends, and now Arial. These fonts have been creted with legibility as the main parameter. Microsoft have commissioned the creation of Calibri, with the added constraint of using less ink (or toner), but I think it looks skeletal.tony hunt said:Years ago an old friend of mine who knew too much about text, typefaces and graphics told me:
generally serif was intended for blocks of text, like in a book, making them flow together. In single instances or words the font would be sans serif to keep each instance apart from the next.
But he was from NYC and liked to tell a lot of baloney. Even if it is nonsense, I kind of follow that idea as much as possible.
Monospace is an acquired taste. I use it only for writing music charts, because things are on a grid, but for legending I don't think it's nice enough. Spacement seems all over the place (which it is not!).metalb00b00 said:I use a Monospaced font like this for all of my front panels.
http://www.fontsplace.com/cinecav-x-mono-premium-font-download.html
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