Was just trolling through some old posts and thought I'd update the topic;
I'm still using the Prov Draftsman as my house-font for most construction drawings and increasingly in Sketch-Up's Layout 2015. One annoyance is that Prov Draftsman doesn't have the degree-sign, so I sometimes will do the angular dimension and bearings in Datacad-font. Though I've found that Datacad is a better font in Sketch-Up 2015-itself, something about how it renders... For tileblocks and drwg/detail titles in SU Layout I have started using Heavyhand.ttf. However in Datacad it just renders looking like Tekton Heavy, so I stick-with Prov Draftsman. Must be something about the drivers; in Datacad it loses that stroke-width delicacy that it has in SU documents.
For large blocks of text in construction drawings and for pages of specifications are typically still rendered in Goudy Oldstyle ATT, It's clean-looking and the serifs are better for long blocks of text, plus part-numbers and product/mfrs. are unambiguous. One trend is that I've shifted up one-or-two-sizes in my font-heights/points for my std. 11x17" construction and design presentations. The same is true for e-mails, I can barely-read the small typefonts that it defaults-to.
The one major change in the last 9-years (Gods has it been THAT long?) is that I use F25 Executive 10-pt or 12-pt for most business correspondence, invoices and billing, and especially project memos. It has a slightly "furry" typewriter-quality that appeals to my inner pencil and tracing-paper Luddite. For internal document with a lot of text where I want to conserve injet-ink, I use Apple Garamond Light at 12-pt. or 14-pt. in the printer's 300-dpi draft-mode. Garamond Light is one of the most ink-efficient fonts for conserving ink per page of text.
One procedural change is that I print almost everything-out using a 3rd-party PDFill PDF Writer before I printing to paper; both for correspondence and for presentation/construction documentation. This-way I have a digital record of EXACTLY what the document looked-like when it left my office, plus I can then e-mail it as an attachment. I find this lets me cut-down on the paper "record copies" filling my filing cabinets since I can always look at it on .pdf, or re-print it out exactly as it left the office weeks or months before. THe PDFill Tools utility also let me recombine the individual pages of construction drawings or presentation sketches into a single .pdf-file for e-mailing, printing and archiving.
I'm still using the Prov Draftsman as my house-font for most construction drawings and increasingly in Sketch-Up's Layout 2015. One annoyance is that Prov Draftsman doesn't have the degree-sign, so I sometimes will do the angular dimension and bearings in Datacad-font. Though I've found that Datacad is a better font in Sketch-Up 2015-itself, something about how it renders... For tileblocks and drwg/detail titles in SU Layout I have started using Heavyhand.ttf. However in Datacad it just renders looking like Tekton Heavy, so I stick-with Prov Draftsman. Must be something about the drivers; in Datacad it loses that stroke-width delicacy that it has in SU documents.
For large blocks of text in construction drawings and for pages of specifications are typically still rendered in Goudy Oldstyle ATT, It's clean-looking and the serifs are better for long blocks of text, plus part-numbers and product/mfrs. are unambiguous. One trend is that I've shifted up one-or-two-sizes in my font-heights/points for my std. 11x17" construction and design presentations. The same is true for e-mails, I can barely-read the small typefonts that it defaults-to.
The one major change in the last 9-years (Gods has it been THAT long?) is that I use F25 Executive 10-pt or 12-pt for most business correspondence, invoices and billing, and especially project memos. It has a slightly "furry" typewriter-quality that appeals to my inner pencil and tracing-paper Luddite. For internal document with a lot of text where I want to conserve injet-ink, I use Apple Garamond Light at 12-pt. or 14-pt. in the printer's 300-dpi draft-mode. Garamond Light is one of the most ink-efficient fonts for conserving ink per page of text.
One procedural change is that I print almost everything-out using a 3rd-party PDFill PDF Writer before I printing to paper; both for correspondence and for presentation/construction documentation. This-way I have a digital record of EXACTLY what the document looked-like when it left my office, plus I can then e-mail it as an attachment. I find this lets me cut-down on the paper "record copies" filling my filing cabinets since I can always look at it on .pdf, or re-print it out exactly as it left the office weeks or months before. THe PDFill Tools utility also let me recombine the individual pages of construction drawings or presentation sketches into a single .pdf-file for e-mailing, printing and archiving.