If you have ever had to send one of your drawings or title blocks to a consultant you will understand why this is not a good idea. Best to stick to fonts that come preinstalled with windows. This is limiting, but it's better to see plain old Arial consistently through a set than to find your Miso is substituted with Comic Sans on the structural drawings.
@4arch:
I have been working for architects for 20 years now, (OK, I had a summer job in high school back in 1988, and then went to arch school), and I agree 100% with what you say, *BUT* I (and I hope those in charge of CAD here) think a good looking set of drawings is worth some hassle. We are already making the move to Revit. By contrast, changing our stock typeface is trivial!
a good looking set of drawings is worth some hassle
4arch's point is that you might not end up with a good looking set of drawings. if your consultants and other team members do not have MISO on their local machines, they'll substitute another font at their computer's discretion.
guaranteed you will have structural drawings and MEP drawings that show all of your backgrounds in Comic Sans...or worse yet...DINGBATS!
the hassle will not be making it the default in your office, but in trying to get everyone you work with to use it as their default.
just a thought, but what do i know. i use Gill Sans Light for EVERYTHING.
Miso Typeface for Revit
is a very nice typeface designed in 2006 by Mårten Nettelbladt
I am proposing it for use as our office's standard typeface for CAD as we make the transition from AutoCAD to Revit.
If there is any reason why we absolutely should not do this, I would love to know!
What are your favourite CAD-appropriate typefaces?
Do they pay you to sit around contemplating fonts?
Yup.
A legible, compact typeface is a wonderful thing for a drawing full of annotations.
that's pretty nice, thanks for sharing
Miso is my favorite typeface, hands down.
looks a lot like Univers rounded
If you have ever had to send one of your drawings or title blocks to a consultant you will understand why this is not a good idea. Best to stick to fonts that come preinstalled with windows. This is limiting, but it's better to see plain old Arial consistently through a set than to find your Miso is substituted with Comic Sans on the structural drawings.
@4arch:
I have been working for architects for 20 years now, (OK, I had a summer job in high school back in 1988, and then went to arch school), and I agree 100% with what you say, *BUT* I (and I hope those in charge of CAD here) think a good looking set of drawings is worth some hassle. We are already making the move to Revit. By contrast, changing our stock typeface is trivial!
4arch's point is that you might not end up with a good looking set of drawings. if your consultants and other team members do not have MISO on their local machines, they'll substitute another font at their computer's discretion.
guaranteed you will have structural drawings and MEP drawings that show all of your backgrounds in Comic Sans...or worse yet...DINGBATS!
the hassle will not be making it the default in your office, but in trying to get everyone you work with to use it as their default.
just a thought, but what do i know. i use Gill Sans Light for EVERYTHING.
I said I agree! I know how fonts work on computers!
There will be some hassle.
We only work with so many consultants. It won't be long before we get them all set up with Miso.
your agreement wasn't strong enough for me.
you see...i'm one of those consultants you see on TV, and i hate when i get shitty architectural backgrounds.
you can always explode your text blocks into p-lines, can't you?
wtf do i know. i don't use autocad or revit. good luck.
"your agreement wasn't strong enough for me."
that kinda talk needs a smiley after it mister :)
my name is all the smiley you'll ever get from me.
i had a falling out with emoticons many years ago, long before lolcats, and i haven't used them since.
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