Unlike OOTB SHX fonts like RomanS which *still* doesn't have the 3/4 stacked fraction. The first is most TTF fonts have extensive symbols "beyond" the normal character range, and those symbols are consistent between fonts. There are two other benefits of using TTF. I normally use Arial, but Calibri is very close and does pretty much the same thing. All those serifs just make the characters look muddy. Serifed fonts like TimesNewRoman do not plot well, especially when plotting reductions. In the past we created a font from SIMPLEX that added a slash in the number "0" but then we would have to deliver the font whenever sending drawings to clients, which was very often forgotten. We all feel that this was a font developed to look like old sttyle computer printing and is not an aestetically pleasing.Ĭan anyone recommmend a font delivered with Autocad that clearly distinguishes "O" and "0". And while it is easy to distinguish "O" and "0", the mresat of us do not like TXT. They have been using TXT as their standard font mainly because the letter "O" is a represented by a rectangle. Also the letter "I" and the number "1" are very similar. They very often have Equipment model/part numbers noted on their drawings and have reported having a problem distinguishing the Letter "O" and the number "0". However, our Electrical/ Controls group has a problem with ROMANS.
Most of the group has aggreed upon using ROMANS as our standard text and dimension font and ROMAND for bold items such as drawing titles, drawing stamps, etc. Our company is presently setting up standars for AutoCad and we are looking for a standard font.