(2019-01-23, 12:23)Philippe Hurbain Wrote:(2019-01-22, 19:25)Chris Dee Wrote: Good point regarding kerning. Do you think the Swiss721BT primitives are overkill? Would it be better (although WET, not DRY *) to inline, as been done with text representations many times elsewhere?For me yes, they are overkill. Considering the gazillon of available fonts, it's often easier to use a similar font, generate the text with txt2dat and if needed tweak a few letter shapes to better match the font used by LEGO (and even if the font was available as primitives, tweaking it implies inlining...)
* WET vs. DRY
It's not Ariel or Myriad .... I hope you do not mind, Phillip
The font for this part is again Swiss BT 721 .... but not "bold" .... in that case it is "normal".
...fits 100%
A real proof that this font has been in use since the gray 12v era until today at Lego.
Perhaps the trade off should be to introduce only very commonly used fonts as primitives.
... makes sense anyway in frequent occurrences .. otherwise Phillip, of course you have legitimate good arguments.