topic Re: Ponds for Architects in Modeling

Ponds for Architects

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 09:21:38 GMT

In Germany we are using very often Arial for pond in plans.
I think, american collegues use very funny ponds in plans.
Can you say, what kind of ponds they are?
Is it possible to download this ponds?
Or costs it?

Re: Ponds for Architects

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:56:24 GMT

Ahem....I think you mean....Fonts

Re: Ponds for Architects

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 13:02:12 GMT

Ponds / Fonts. It's all good mate.

Good one is adobe's 'tekton'.
Easy to read but somewhat hand drawn.
Probably have to pay for that though. $15.00 US
I use it and Arial.

Re: Ponds for Architects

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 13:35:26 GMT

the font in the image looks to be "city blueprint", and i think it is a standard font in windows.

Re: Ponds for Architects

Rick Thompson — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 15:43:52 GMT

That was weird. I posted that attachment to another topic, so I was a bit puzzled as to why it was posted by someone else under "ponds".. I had no idea what a pond for architects was, so just had to look

That font in called MrHand. It is available from Objects online at this link

http://objectsonline.com/customer/search.php?substring=fonts

Re: Ponds for Architects

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:42:16 GMT

@Rick
Thanks Rick, right this one is from your material.
Sorry for using...

Mr. Hand...
What kind of "FONTS" is used in the USA?
Mainly Mr. Hand?

Re: Ponds for Architects

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:45:58 GMT

g.h.design wrote:
Ponds / Fonts. It's all good mate.

Good one is adobe's 'tekton'.
Easy to read but somewhat hand drawn.
Probably have to pay for that though. $15.00 US
I use it and Arial.

Tekton....
I am using in a moment "Myriad condensed web", because it is short and cost free.

Re: Ponds for Architects

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:52:00 GMT

I was hoping to find some cool GDL water features. Bummer

Re: Ponds for Architects

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 19:00:18 GMT

Matthew wrote:
I was hoping to find some cool GDL water features. Bummer

Re: Ponds for Architects

Jere — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:17:22 GMT

Archi wrote:
@Rick
Thanks Rick, right this one is from your material.
Sorry for using...

Mr. Hand...
What kind of "FONTS" is used in the USA?
Mainly Mr. Hand?

I'm in Canada. Almost every firm I know uses a different font including Helvetica, Arial, Tekton, Graphite. The trend seems to be moving towards sans serif fonts, especially Arial.

Re: Ponds for Architects

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 07:17:58 GMT

Jere wrote:
Archi wrote:
@Rick
Thanks Rick, right this one is from your material.
Sorry for using...

Mr. Hand...
What kind of "FONTS" is used in the USA?
Mainly Mr. Hand?
I'm in Canada. Almost every firm I know uses a different font including Helvetica, Arial, Tekton, Graphite. The trend seems to be moving towards sans serif fonts, especially Arial.

Arial seems to be setting in as a standard in most places; at least for CDs. Schematic drawings still show a bit more variety, and title blocks ofetn sport a bit of Palatino or some slightly more exotic typefaces.

Re: Ponds for Architects

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:45:52 GMT

Matthew wrote:

Arial seems to be setting in as a standard in most places; at least for CDs. Schematic drawings still show a bit more variety, and title blocks ofetn sport a bit of Palatino or some slightly more exotic typefaces.

You american colleagues have nice graphic style with working drawings (include. arrow and fonts).
Just Arial like in Europe is boring....

Re: Ponds for Architects

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:13:15 GMT

We use Gill Sans, nearly Arial, but a little bit nicer...

Re: Ponds for Architects

KeesW — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:00:49 GMT

I too wanted to know what a 'pond' was and had a look!

I use 'graphite light' for casual text. Don't know where I got it - an autocad add-on many years ago, i think. Its the most effective freehand font that I've come accross. It really looks handwritten, and is quite compact. Other free hand fonts seem to be vey wide and take up too much room. But it's not a standard true type font and has to be copied and loaded whenever I move to a new computer.

Re: Ponds for Architects

Jere — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:21:47 GMT

KeesW wrote:
I too wanted to know what a 'pond' was and had a look!

I use 'graphite light' for casual text. Don't know where I got it - an autocad add-on many years ago, i think. Its the most effective freehand font that I've come accross. It really looks handwritten, and is quite compact. Other free hand fonts seem to be vey wide and take up too much room. But it's not a standard true type font and has to be copied and loaded whenever I move to a new computer.

it's expensive ($215US), but you should check out the whole Graphite font family. I used graphite light for a little while, but i just find some of the numbers are hard to read, especially when decimals are used. It might be more clear on the Graphite medium though.

http://store.adobe.com/type/browser/P/P_1334.html

Re: Ponds for Architects

SeaGeoff — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:09:23 GMT

Anybody know of a font that includes a centerline (CL) symbol? Seems obvious but none of mine have it.

Re: Ponds for Architects

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 15:27:05 GMT

Geoff wrote:
Anybody know of a font that includes a centerline (CL) symbol? Seems obvious but none of mine have it.

I've never seen one, but it sure would be nice. Surprisingly even the "Architect's Font Pack" has none.

Re: Ponds for Architects

Jere — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:38:39 GMT

i know (and have a couple) that do, but they're AutoCAD .shx fonts.

Re: Ponds for Architects

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 07:06:40 GMT

Jere wrote:
i know (and have a couple) that do, but they're AutoCAD .shx fonts.

I think some of the old GS vector fonts may have had it as well. Not much help though.

Re: Ponds for Architects

James Murray — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:06:32 GMT

Geoff wrote:
Anybody know of a font that includes a centerline (CL) symbol? Seems obvious but none of mine have it.

Sez here, 'Arial Unicode MS' has it. Not exactly Arial, I think.

A little more research and I see that the font has 52,000 glyphs in it. The file size of the font is 22MB. Conventional Arial is around 1MB. It was downloadable in the past, but apparently now it is only distributed with Office. But that must mean the PC version; I don't have it either.

I wonder if AC would react emotionally to a 22MB font.

I use an object for CL, which I would share if it would be helpful.