Best font for dimensions

[Anonymous]

I have a dense plan which should be print on Tabloid Paper. It has many interior dimensions. choosing the right font is so important. I want to choose a font which has these characters:

1-To be bold and visible (my boss and client have Presbyopia! )

2- Has less width than others

3-To be professional

4- The heigh should be around 2.5 mm

This is one part of my plan

I compared some fonts at the below image. as you see Arial bold is not good because it touches the walls.

which font do you suggest to use for print a draft on tabloid paper for a client the drawing has many interior dimensions which shouldn't touch walls and other texts and labels.

[Sujan.Maharjan]

Hi, 

How about Arial with 0.8mm width. Note: Never use Arial narrow

[Anonymous]

The original Plan should be print on A1 but at the office for drafting jobs, we print on A3 (Tabloid). Revit's dimension sizes for A1 is ok but for printing, in A3 they will be so small. So we should choose 2.5mm font for draft printing.

 Also, Imperial dimension texts are so longer than metric for example 5' - 10 3/4" is equal to  1.62 m

because of that we should use dense font with 2.5mm height

[Anonymous]

Revit should have something Like Width Factor in Autocad' text style.

[Avaris. · Accepted solution]

Revit has:

-Select text or dimension

-Edit Type

-Adjust width factor (bottom value in text, top value in dimension)

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Thank you, I found the width factor.

Also Suppress spaces in Unit Format is helpful

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

Suppress 0' too.  You want 5", not 0'-5". 

[syman2000 · Accepted solution]

Also Dimension has Suppress Space. Also I would create two type of dimension with one text as OPAQUE & the other transparent. Opaque allows text to add white mask background similar to AutoCAD text masking.