Standard font
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DIN EN ISO 3098 |
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| Area | literature |
| title | Technical product documentation - Fonts - Part 0: Basic rules, Part 2: Latin alphabet, digits and characters, Part 3: Greek alphabet, Part 4: Diacritical and special characters in the Latin alphabet, Part 5: CAD fonts of the Latin alphabet and digits and Characters, part 6: Cyrillic alphabet |
| Brief description: | Standard font |
| Latest edition | various |
| ISO | 3098 |
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DIN 6776-1 |
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| Area | literature |
| title | Technical drawings, lettering, characters |
| Brief description: | Standard font |
| Latest edition | 4.1976 (invalid) |
| ISO | - |
A standard font is one for use in a specific application, e.g. B. technical drawings , standardized ( standardized ) writing. Depending on the area of application, area of responsibility, period, version of the standard, etc., different fonts can be used.
Technical drawings
Since November 2000 the font standardized according to EN ISO 3098 (as a national adoption DIN EN ISO 3098 ) has replaced the older DIN 6776-1 for technical drawings in Germany.
That standard font according to DIN 6776 (ISO 3098) gradually replaced the previous standard font according to DIN 16 and DIN 17 (in the GDR: TGL 0-16 and TGL 0-17) from the end of the 1970s.
DIN 16 and DIN 17 were based in turn on the font recommendation of the Prussian railway administration according to sample drawing IV 44. The latter later found its way into the standardization as traffic script ( DIN 1451 ).
Characteristics of the font according to DIN EN ISO 3098
The new font according to DIN EN ISO 3098 does not have any lines that converge at an acute angle and is therefore better suited for microfilming. It was standardized almost identically in the GDR under TGL 31034.
The font according to DIN EN ISO 3098 is available both in a straight form and in a form that is inclined by 15 °.
There are three standardized sizes of uppercase and lowercase letters and line widths with the following values. Other font sizes correspond to 10 times the line width, whereby the font size here is named according to the capital height , deviating from the usual rules of typography . Only 3 consecutive font sizes are used within a drawing. The smallest font stencils manufactured were made for 1.3 mm font (0.13 mm line width).
- Line width 0.25 mm:
- Font size h 2.5 mm
- Height of lower case letters 7/10 h (1.75 mm)
- Line width 0.5 mm:
- Font size h 5 mm
- Height of lower case letters 7/10 h (3.5 mm)
- Line width 0.7 mm:
- Font size h 7 mm
- Height of lower case letters 7/10 h (4.9 mm)
The lines in which standard fonts are used consist of a top and bottom line for the uppercase letters and a middle line for the lowercase letters.
Today's meaning of manual lettering
Nowadays, in which many technical drawings are created with the computer , it is no longer absolutely necessary to master the manual lettering in standard script. However, you should still be familiar with the basics in order to get a clean typeface for hand sketches , for example .
The standard font is learned with the help of font templates that contain openings for letters, numbers, etc., which are then written one after the other in order to learn the movement of the script. Then the letters are copied freehand.
License Plate
The standard font for German license plates is the FE font . It replaced the older font according to DIN 1451 .