Blueprinting font

I have been in search of the perfect blueprinting font for about a year. I
have tried free and purchased fonts to no avail. I am looking for a font
that most closely represents such font described in ASME Y14 series or
Global Engineering Documents DRM. Has anyone out there been luckier than I?
Could you share your thoughts?

Me

 

Good question I am anxiously awaiting a response also.

 

"Blockfont".

 

CityBluePrint (TrueType) doesn't fill the bill?

 

CityBluePrint is a hand lettering font which does not conform to that of
ASME standards. I am not looking for a hand lettering font. What I am
looking for is a single stroke monospaced font without the typical swirls
and tails on the letters. I want an "I" which looks exaclty like the one I
just typed, with the caps on the top and bottom. W's which has the center
"point" eqaul to the two other legs. etc. etc. etc.

Am I just being too picky? One font which I believe is close is Monospac821
BT. Unfortunately it looks too bold in most cases.

Me

 

We use "Technic". It's from a font collection called TECH from Linguist'
Software.
http://www.linguistsoftware.com/tech.htm

Hope it help,

Marc

 

arial is fairly close and it's free.

or try helvetica;

http://store.adobe.com/type/browser/P/P_1424.html
http://www.fonts.com/Fontlist/fonts-h.htm

type 55 is normal. neue 2 volume is a good combo.

 

missed the "I" request
check out http://www.myfonts.com

it seems that the 3 problem letters are "a", "I" & "Q"

avant garde mono ("Q" no good)
monospace 821 ("a" no good)

2 out of 3 isn't bad

 

There's a list of letters that should not be used.
IIRC These include Q, O, I & L.
You will often find Sites on the web that do not know this <G>.

(Poor jb probably stole them all for part numbers.)

On the use of text fonts: Use simple stick fonts. Remember
that each character is really made up of lots of lines/curves
and that all of that is geometry that must be calculaed &
recalculated. IF the font works on systems do not have
it installed than the geometry/font must also be stored
in the part database, not just pointers to an external file
that defines it (along with the ASCII values/strings for
each character to be displayed).

This can probably add quite a bit to database size & slow
things down .....

HTH

 

Monospace 821 is what I am currently using. It appears I may have to just
accept it as "as close as it gets".

Thanks for all the input,
Greg

 

Here's your font:
http://www.identifont.com/samples/p22/GDTNoframes.gif


Buy it here for a nickel under 30 bucks:
http://www.p22.com/products/gdandt.html

 

Close, but not quite. The I is missing the top and bottom horizontal marks.
Ref. this one < I >. Maybe I am being too picky but I cannot believe
there is no font that fills the bill. I have heard rumors that Lockheed and
a few other companies have created their own fonts because of the lack of
font supporting the ASME standards. Can anyone confirm?

BTW, I want to thank everyone who submitted fonts for me to look at, but
alas the hunt will continue.

Me

 

Do you have a link to this spec? Or a scan of the characters that
comply? I'm sure there is something out there.

The 'I' You type would probably be a 'fixed' or 'monospace' type, but
without a sample of the complete character set, or at least some letters
and numbers, it would be hard to give you something perfect.

The 'I' you type shows as courier font on my screen, it may show as
tahoma or verdana on someone else's... depending on their mail client
and settings.

D

 

kind of odd that in the drm manual (sec. 3.6.2) refers to this font as
gothic style. also, figure 3-7c refers to a microfont.

there are several companies and individuals who create custom fonts.
perhaps you could convince one of them that it could be worthwhile on thier
part to create this font and distribute either directly or in-directly thru
asme or one of the font web sites.

 

i find the gdt font useful for dims, but for regular text (i.e. notes) i
prefer to use something else. sw has a version of gdt as does acad.

i have a scanned image of the font in question. however, i have no way to
publish on web.

 

i see no email