What Font Do You Use?

[Ultrabags]

I've worked for several different employers, and it seems to me that the industry standard is to use the simplex font. I'm coming to the conclusion that the simplex font type is not the font I want to use on my projects in Revit. It seems to come out very light for some reason when I print out a sheet, not to mention it just doesn't look good in Revit. I have tried changing the parameters of the text with bold, but still seems light. I'm also at odds since our company for years has used the simplex font and some people here in my office are against changing anything. I do understand that we would have to change our standard details (which would take up time and man hours) in CAD if we went with a different font in Revit.

I guess my questions to you all out there in Revit Land would be.

1. What fonts are you using now for your Revit production drawings?
2. How did you go about implementing these changes if you indeed changed your font?

[Dimitri Harvalias]

There have been a number of threads along this line recently. A quick search will get you some other opinions.

For consistency of export and compatibility with ACAD you should use Arial. It is installed on all Windows machines by default, and it is supported by Revit and ACAD. You also have a number of weight options with bold, light and narrow variations.

Not the most exciting option but it does the trick.

[Tom Weir]

Hi,
We have changed from simplex to arial going fromAutocad to Revit..

Tom Weir
Los Angeles

[Chad Smith]

I use Arial Narrow. I find it prints well and being the narrow variant I can fit more notes in in a smaller area.

[Terry Jordan]

We use 3/32" Arial. It's worked out pretty well.

[Paul Andersen]

Another vote for the Arial family of fonts here. The bulk of our annotation utilizes the Arial Narrow font for the same reasons Chad already outlined and because we enjoy changing all of the delivered content ;). It's also compliant with the National CAD Standard if you're pushing that route. Our previous 2D cad font was AR2.

[Ultrabags]

Arial is my vote too. Thanks for the input everyone. Now to the task of convincing the majority.