Suggestions for DOT lettering font in short space

[trakers]

Help please

I need to fit some USDOT numbers within a 12" space

If I read the specs correctly the lettering needs to be 2" high but I can't seem to find a font that will allow me to fit text similar to the below within a 12" width when 2" high.

USDOT 1319262

 

[VinylCraft]

Find a new space. Theres not much eles you can do.

 

[Pro Image]

Some times you just got to SQUISH IT................

 

[JT]

Arial Black or similar "squished" as Dustin put it.

 

[Bogie]

No. It has to be legible. Look for a "condensed bold" or "condensed heavy" font. Custom kern it.

Does the USDOT need to be the same size as the number? Does it need to be on the same line?

Because I can fit it on two lines no problem. Or if you could make the USDOT smaller...

 

[Bogie]

quickie custom kerning with a condensed franklin gothic

 

[Fred Weiss]

Either of these two work.

 

[Bogie]

Gee, Fred... Do you think we oughta send him a Corel file?

 

[trakers]

Thanks guys. I ended up finding and using a variant of Compacta which barely fit.

 

[Fred Weiss]

Gee, Fred... Do you think we oughta send him a Corel file?

No but ponder this ...

Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas. . . . The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse went unhung. Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.

Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward Angel

 

[iSign]

well, that'll teach you to think again, before thinking Bogie

 

[Fred Weiss]

well, that'll teach you to think again, before thinking Bogie

Or to put it another way ...

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

Yogi Berra

 

[Kysparky]

Or to put it another way ...

Then start looking for the knife

 

[Fred Weiss]

One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.

Damon Runyon - The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown

:Sleeping:

 

[Kysparky]

:Sleeping:

Takes 3 days to get all that cider outa your ear!!

 

[Fred Weiss]

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Will Rogers

 

[skyhigh]

Help please

I need to fit some USDOT numbers within a 12" space

If I read the specs correctly the lettering needs to be 2" high but I can't seem to find a font that will allow me to fit text similar to the below within a 12" width when 2" high.

USDOT 1319262

USDOT #'s have to be a minimum of 1.5" high. I'm sure that will help.

 

[ddubia]

I use Folio Condensed for such things.

Folio seems to be a font that does not really have a personality of its own. It can be used on for a lot of things and the condensed version fits your dilema pretty well. You can kern it just a little tighter even if you need to for your purpose.

 

[Kysparky]

I do dot#s for a company here in Ky and they have to be 3" for that company. I use Arial Black but I have plenty of room to work with. Arial narrow might work and I don't think you need any spacing there