Billboard Type Sizes
Billboard Type Sizes
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- Focker
Creating a billboard 5x11 feet. Anyone have any experience with this? What size do you think the type needs to be. Or how do you think i can estimate?
- ribit0
It's all relative isnt it?
I guess you could say that the billboard appears about as big as a magazine page held at arms length as you drive past it...so design for that level of detail...
...but then again you might be standing right in front of it, 6 inches away... so....
- ovalle0
"For each 25 feet of viewing distance, the cap height of letters should be increased in size by one inch"
- quote taken from the book
Working with Type, Exhibitionsget this book is really great resource
here is the isbn:
2-88046-437-4
- Focker0
Thanks!