eye chart typeface?
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- getseen
Does anyone know the the typeface used on a snellen chart?
http://my.webmd.com/hw/health_gu…I have already tried whatthefont.com and it didnt come up with anything exact.
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- monNom0
try serifa or lubalin graph
- rabattski0
The symbols on an acuity chart are formally known as "optotypes." In the case of the traditional Snellen chart, the optotypes have the appearance of block letters, and are intended to be seen and read as letters. They are not, however, letters from any ordinary typographer's font. They have a particular, simple geometry in which:
* the thickness of the lines equals the thickness of the white spaces between lines and the thickness of the gap in the letter "C"
* the height and width of the optotype (letter) is five times the thickness of the line.Only the nine letters C, D, E, F, L, O, P, T, Z are used in the traditional Snellen chart.