If you are still using cursive or any fancy fonts in your maps or plats,
I curse your name! You miserable, salaried sons of..... Weepin' Jesus on the cross.
Wait... Is that a 5 or a 3? 6 or 8?
And this plat is from 2010. No excuse! KNOCK IT OFF!
Block letters. Sans (without) serifs. PLEASE.
You have no control on how it is scanned and reproduced so please strive for legibility. Thanks. And sorry for the harsh words. I just can't get Oh Brother Where Art Thou movie quotes out of my head.
Andy, those who do such things could care less. You are suggesting handicapping their personnel artistic rights. They already have been exposed to the problems you describe and will never accept the fact that there is a problem, it will take State Law addressing acceptable fonts and lettering size to get their attention.
jud
Yeah, I know. I am venting.
I had a former boss who insisted upon using the Olde English font on his drawings. Some of the capital letters were hard enough to figure out even at a large size. That was twenty years ago and I still dislike that font.
I use Arial for almost everything I "write". Smooth, square and easy to read.
Another Andy
Arial, RomanS, Calibri, or plain ole Simplex works best for me.
The Title Company ends up re-typing just about everything I create in the the way property description. The font complaint extends to maps and plats however, and they are probably copied more than descriptions.
Ditto Robert!
-JD-
Olde English!
Never!!!! Not even for a subdivision name in a title!!
think of it as a challenge. I am actually going to simpler fonts.
Look on the bright side. They wrote out degrees, minutes, and seconds ....
> Look on the bright side. They wrote out degrees, minutes, and seconds ....
[sarcasm]You forgot to use the sarcasm font.[/sarcasm]
Olde English ... gross ... at least make it look cool ...
or better yet....
Sarcasm font is a pita with the droid.
I'm with you on that! I never understood using fonts that look like handwriting, or fonts that can't even be read when at full size.
I try to make my 24"x36" recorded plans legible even when reduced to 8 1/2" x 11".
I found this website ( http://www.typographyforlawyers.com) and it's associated book to be very helpful for making typographical decisions. Although it's aimed at lawyers, there's lot's of useful information there.
Jeff
It took about 20yrs of complaining to get our present clerk aware of the fact that if they can not read the document when it comes to their desk that years later it still can not be copied and read by anyone.
They do have the power to send it back to be redone in a proper fashion for recording.
0.02
Nothing beats the Olde English on a baseball cap. Go Tigers!
Using ilegible fonts, is like talking with a mouph full of tobaccowhileslurringyourwordsalltogethersothatnobodycanunderstandit
I normally use Times New Roman. Is that acceptable?
For password generation, I use an 8 sided die from a discarded board game. It's numbered 1 to 8. I add 1, giving 2 to 9. I never have to figure out if "l" is a number or a small ell, and never have to figure out if "0" is a number or a capital oh.