Barcode Q
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- Nairn0
You CAN scale them. The size specs are recommendations for given situations - such as 120% for high volume retail, or 80% for .. well, less so.
if you want to get an idea of the extremes of tolerance - have a look at the side of a cigarette packet. If they are anything like the ones we have here in Blighty, they are way less than 80% width, and have a non-proportional height.
I ripped my head apart trying to work this out from guidelines a few months back - becoming thoroughly confused when I saw that major brands didn't necessarily follow the specs I had been led to believe were concrete.
- Nairn0
A slight sidetrack - I'd be interested to know what the tolerances are for colouring too, if anyone knows. After I finished the last barcode project, I noticed on a bottle of Coca-Cola a black on red barcode, printed on shiny plastic shrink film.
Both of these aspects, particularly together, I thought were no-nos?
- They want to piss off underpaid retail clerks then...TheBlueOne
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- MrOneHundred0
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- Hey, that's really handy! Thank svery much Mr100 - where were you when I didn't ask about this months ago?!Nairn
- I was not at work not backing up my HD.MrOneHundred
- I can't not remember forgetting to recall that.Nairn
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- epikore0
I thought it was ok to scale them
- brandelec0
shorten like trim?
- doesnotexist0
you can't scale them, you can make them shorter/longer though. width has to stay the same.
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But don't shorten too much. I believe there's a min height.pylon
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- brandelec0
i think trimming is fine
- kezza_20
- exactlydoesnotexist
- I did a logo for a record store just like that one on the bottom left many moons ago (2000 i think)max_prophet
- awful huhmax_prophet