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- Thread starter myront
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Rick
Certified Enneadecagon Designer
This explains it best...
https://www.fonts.com/content/learning/fontology/level-2/text-typography/rags-widows-orphans
https://www.fonts.com/content/learning/fontology/level-2/text-typography/rags-widows-orphans
Rick
Certified Enneadecagon Designer
Looks like alignments and sizes are off...
First Off:
-- The + logo is not where it's supposed to be called out, and there is no measurement called out on how high it sits on the sign.
-- The changeable number panel says one size, then gets thrown off on the detail drawing.
-- Also looks like baseline to baseline measurement on the "Safety is a Job Requirement" is off
-- Changeable panels and text do not match called out measurements,
Most likely someone pasted on the wrong scale layer and/or didn't verify the correct size, and shifted the drawing over a smidge...
First Off:
-- The + logo is not where it's supposed to be called out, and there is no measurement called out on how high it sits on the sign.
-- The changeable number panel says one size, then gets thrown off on the detail drawing.
-- Also looks like baseline to baseline measurement on the "Safety is a Job Requirement" is off
-- Changeable panels and text do not match called out measurements,
Most likely someone pasted on the wrong scale layer and/or didn't verify the correct size, and shifted the drawing over a smidge...
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myront
Dammit, make it faster!!
I'd post the non-vector pdf here but it's really a pia to do so. p.s. I've forgotten my dropbox password.
Calls for Helvetica but the image to the right doesn't use helvetica.
Says black but shows red.
At one point it mentions 12.5" LH.
Why not design the sign at full scale first then right the notes/legend to match? Once it's all said and done make a copy and scale it down to 8.5 x 11 for print and while you're at it leave it all vector.
Calls for Helvetica but the image to the right doesn't use helvetica.
Says black but shows red.
At one point it mentions 12.5" LH.
Why not design the sign at full scale first then right the notes/legend to match? Once it's all said and done make a copy and scale it down to 8.5 x 11 for print and while you're at it leave it all vector.
Nickprints
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Rick
Certified Enneadecagon Designer
I agree that a full-size editable and vector template would be nice. On standards like this though, the reality is it takes one lazy person to mess up a drawing and it usually only gets worse as times goes on.
There are so many designers that are this lazy and there is so much wrong with that drawing. To cover your butt, I would rebuild it using whatever information you have, send them a scaled drawing of it, and then have them sign off on it.
Thanks for putting this reference up. I knew this already but this is a good way of explaining it to others.
Rick
Certified Enneadecagon Designer
Actually, yeah, there are a lot of dumb replicators (sign shops)
This one drawing shows that even the person calling out the sign can't make a layout even when called out. There is a graphic standard for quite a few government signs, my bet is that some sign vendor rebuilt this drawing, and messed it up... and is now being circulated.
I'm also betting that a design firm that specializes in signage or in-house government office originally designed the graphic standard, maybe even before signs were computer drawn.
I design graphic standards, and have worked on quite a few government projects. The reason for such detail is that a replicator would not have to go out on the field and measure an existing sign and/or try to figure out typefaces, colors, materials. The idea is that each sign is made exactly the same as the next. Imagine allowing hundreds of sign shops access to interpreting a sign - even a simple one like this one.
signman315
Signmaker
I think of it like a free answer to a pop quiz....here's the size, fonts, and every other possible spec, now make it so. I generally enjoy these jobs, no thinking, just make the money um I mean just make the sign lol. The only time I don't enjoy them is when it's specified as something that's going to be a failure if made to said specs, at which point I decline the job and/or offer my own alternative. I'll either lose a job I didn't want or they will accept my alternative using methods that are in my lane and I'm comfortable with.
Rick
Certified Enneadecagon Designer
If you are going into most of the these as a new project, most jobs I work on like this are in the hundreds of thousands, some of these jobs are in the millions of dollars. Most everything has been worked out code wise, permitting is usually a breeze, bidding is easy, sometimes all you have to do is double check the drawing, size it up and you are good to go...
It's when you have to make 1 sign - every few months or so, and different sign shops do them, imagine dealing with multiple interpretations, not all sign shops have the same capabilities, or skill or fonts... thats the problem.