Do you still use TXT font in your drawings?

I went completely ttf a while back.
Arial, Malgun, Technical, Last Uniform,Sergoe
For some reason Last Uniform doesn't always behave well in some areas. Mtext can be painful.
What's the reason for not liking Arial?

I have modified some fonts to give better annotations in º ' ".
Some the degreeº sits too high or is too big.

I never used Txt, I think it looks cheesy. I favor Romans and Romand, and avoid the TT fonts.

I've prefer ROMANS at 1.125 wide on my cad drawings.

Some fonts will not make the transfer between early versions and later versions of cad.

Comic Sans and Frugal Sans or two other favorites.

B-)

I use Simplex with an oblique angle of 15 degrees. I use an arial font in my title blocks.

OMG NO!

Simplex and Tahoma.

In the directory where your fonts are stored, you can copy a font file you like and rename it txt.shx to overide the default. I chose simplex.shx.

I LOVE a good chat about fonts.

Nerds.

btw - mostly romans

I wrote an AutoCAD shp/shx font back when I worked for a private firm.

I have a shadow font that I built from scratch in 1990 or so. I still use it.

Jim Frame, post: 323573, member: 10 wrote: I have a shadow font that I built from scratch in 1990 or so. I still use it.

That's what I did too.

I use simplex with a 20 degree oblique angle. I try to make it look like my dad's maps that were hand drawn with a Leroy template.

Dave Karoly, post: 323578, member: 94 wrote: That's what I did too.

Did you make yours right-handed or left-handed? I'm a lefty and didn't even know there was a "right way" and "wrong way" to shadow, but I was told as much by a co-worker when he saw my font -- he said "It's backward."

I copied a plastic template we had. It's more like single lines with offsets so it looks shadowed.

In the directory where your fonts are stored, you can copy a font file you like and rename it txt.shx to overide the default. I chose simplex.shx.

Wow that's a great tip. I change the TXT default to trebuchet from the Style dialog box. Now I know how to default it to my preferred font.

The like Arial fonts, it is just that they start to look "ordinary" for my plans.

ISOCP for me.

I use whatever basic font that is used by the company, probably Times New Roman or similar.

Lately there have been drawings shared with me that use some sort of "fancy" non-standard font. That gets annoying real quick. A pop up window appears asking what I want to replace the unrecognized font with. I do not have 100% confidence things are getting translated correctly....

We use RomanS in model space but mix in a little Calibri or Arial in paper space title block, metes and bounds, spread sheet inserts, etc.

Since installing C3D 2016 when printing on paper or pdf my bold text is just printing the outline of the letters, a little like a shadow text. I have tried several things to get it to print normal filled-in text but no luck.

Robert Ellis, post: 323634, member: 1183 wrote: We use RomanS in model space but mix in a little Calibri or Arial in paper space title block, metes and bounds, spread sheet inserts, etc.

Since installing C3D 2016 when printing on paper or pdf my bold text is just printing the outline of the letters, a little like a shadow text. I have tried several things to get it to print normal filled-in text but no luck.

Robert I hate to even ask but have you checked the textfill sysvar it should be set to 1

Show me a drawing in TXT font, and I'll show you a draftsperson who finds rudimentary CAD a great challenge. Hey, 1985 called, they want their font back. Nobody does TXT because they think it looks good. They do it because they don't know how to change.

The beauty of TrueType fonts is that they plot the same weight regardless of what layer/color/pen setting the text might be set to. Makes for a much cleaner, more proportional look. Large blocks of text especially are more readable in TrueType. I really don't know of any negatives to using Truetype with newer versions of the AutoCAD products I use.

Arial, Tahoma, and Swiss are widely used TTs, the letter shapes are not far different from simplex and RomanS.

The office I'm in now uses Simplex for no other reason other than that is what has always been used. I've been promoting switching to a TT. Any san serif TT font will be fine. Just to be a little different, and partly for political reasons, I favor Calibri because it is the base font in MS Word these days. (I can't really tell a difference between Calibri and Arial or Tahoma unless they are side by side). Where my work product is not going on to the engineers, such as Records of Survey and ALTA's, I've been producing maps using Calibri. Those that see them, even the strongest opponents of a general switch, agree that it's a better look than similar drawings produced with Simplex, even when the simplex has been properly lineweighted .