Colored pencils

I have my layering/pen settings set up so that control prints red, boundary prints blue, everything else is black or shades of gray. Similarly, I often use red pen or pencil in my field book diagrams for control points, blue ink for boundary points

I love working in colors. It makes complicated problems just jump off the page at me!

I have worked with green pencil/pen since of the dawn of time. It helps me looking back to see what portion of any job file I may have had a hand in.
I have red, blue, yellow, orange, brown and green in the ex coffee cup on my desk.

Here is something interesting - I found out that my mom can taste colors and my dad associates colors with numbers.

The kicker - neither of them knew the other had this condition until I brought it up.

I tend to write in red or blue, as the boss always writes in black, this helps us tell from a distance who wrote what when looking at paperwork. I have no other set system, which I guess is odd, because I use different colors for just about everything i do, but have no consistency. Probably drives my tech nuts.

Lots of colors, all the time. Especially when sorting out Patent exceptions on Mineral Survey Plats.

Loyal

Wait. Some people still use paper?????

I use red colored pencils and Bic pens to bring attention to text in deeds.

Nope. Just coffee and mustard stains.

imaudigger, post: 390661, member: 7286 wrote: Takes me back to simpler times

Great therapy.

I use colored sharpies to keep track of base lines and vectors and disabling trivial vectors when post proccessing. (Dayum u autocorrect)

I have a box of Pilot G2 gel pens, about 10 different colors, that I use to draw sketches with.

James

Yes often.
Different cadastral surveys get given individual colours when calculating comparisons, and generally use A3 sheet of paper.
Each original survey plan/ notes given a swipe of colour to quickly ID it amongst a wad of paper plans.
Nothing to have 10 old surveys sprawled out across the desk in any given boundary determination.

I used to keep a big chief tablet and a box of crayons in my truck. Anytime I was trying to explain something to someone and they were not comprehending, I would ask them if I needed to get my crayons and big chief tablet out and color them a picture. Never had anyone take me up on it.

Later on I discovered neon window markers. I just use my truck windows as a chalk board.

James

Holy Cow, post: 390686, member: 50 wrote: Wait. Some people still use paper?????

not so much:

I thought we had moved past calling entities "colored".

Worked for a registered that only recognized one color RED. He owned and used more red pens for mark-ups and corrections than i'd seen in a lifetime!!

Will never forget the time I was trying to show a client the pretty orange flags marking his tract. I had known him for many years but learned that day that he was colorblind. He had to look for a distinctive rectangle moving differently from the surroundings. What a shame.

Follow up-
I was out picking some stuff up from Staples the other evening after work, and bought this for $8.00 -

for personal use at the house.... I liked it and thought I'd get a couple sets to have around the office.
So I emailed the authorized-buyer-of-stuff-from-staples-because-you-can't-buy-it-yourself-or-anywhere-else and sent her the picture, saying, "Please get me 3 sets of these."
She emails back and say's "Those are on the restricted purchase list" (meaning we can't buy them) "but I can buy this for $4.99"

makes me wonder who made the determinations of what's allowed or not.....