Looking for Windows version of Autocad "Simplex" font
Nicholas Fitzpatrick
(it's a simple font, that looks much like a child's printing, and was
probably designed to look like old hand-drawn stencils).
Many drawings are now being produced in applications such as Corel
or Surfer, and none of the available Windows fonts I have seen
resemble the Autocad font. Does anyone know of a Windows font
that is a perfect match for the Autocad Simplex font, and how
to obtain it.
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Thanks;
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Nicholas Fitzpatrick (nf...@sentex.ca)
Ambrose Li
>We are using an Autocad font which (appears) to be referred to as Simplex.
>(it's a simple font, that looks much like a child's printing, and was
>probably designed to look like old hand-drawn stencils).
AFAIK, simplex is designed to work with plotters. It is not designed
to look like old hand-drawn stencils, but rather to minimize the number
of moves that a plotter pen has to make in order to minimize the time
needed to make a plot (while still maintaining the legibility of the
drawn letters). (And if you have a slow pen plotter you will know
what I mean: try using duplex or even triplex fonts in plots and you
will notice the time difference.) The name simplex just means "a single
pass of the pen"; so it is not one font, but a class of fonts which can
be drawn this way.
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Miles Constable
>
> We are using an Autocad font which (appears) to be referred to as Simplex.
> (it's a simple font, that looks much like a child's printing, and was
> probably designed to look like old hand-drawn stencils).
>
> or Surfer, and none of the available Windows fonts I have seen
> resemble the Autocad font. Does anyone know of a Windows font
> that is a perfect match for the Autocad Simplex font, and how
Try the True type font called "Monospace 821 BT", which is included in the
r13/common/fonts directory. It also comes in bold and italic versions. It may
not be exactly the same as the roman simplex font, but it comes close.
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Nicholas Fitzpatrick
>On Fri, 09 Feb 1996 18:29:06 GMT, in article <4fg3b6$l...@granite.sentex.net>, Nicholas Fitzpatrick <nf...@sentex.ca> wrote:
>>We are using an Autocad font which (appears) to be referred to as Simplex.
>>(it's a simple font, that looks much like a child's printing, and was
>>probably designed to look like old hand-drawn stencils).
>AFAIK, simplex is designed to work with plotters. It is not designed
>to look like old hand-drawn stencils, but rather to minimize the number
>of moves that a plotter pen has to make in order to minimize the time
>needed to make a plot (while still maintaining the legibility of the
>drawn letters). (And if you have a slow pen plotter you will know
>what I mean: try using duplex or even triplex fonts in plots and you
>will notice the time difference.) The name simplex just means "a single
>pass of the pen"; so it is not one font, but a class of fonts which can
>be drawn this way.
Yes, apparently I was misled, the Font is apparently the standard AutoCad
font Romans, as simplex, so I guess we are looking for a
simplex Romans font.
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