Ponds for Architects

[Anonymous]

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?

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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....

[Anonymous]

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

[KeesW]

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.

[Jere]

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

[SeaGeoff]

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

[Anonymous]

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.

[Jere]

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

[Anonymous]

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.

[James Murray]

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.