Box Font - what font is most similar in proportion

[wire123]

Does anyone know which font is most similar in proportion to the box font?

I am trying to create a series of templates using the box font. The text will go on an arc.

We have about 3 doz different arc radii that we reuse.

The user would be able to pick the arc radii and type in the line below the numbers which represent the positions of the clock and know how the text will lay out.

The general concept below is from Notepad which doesn't work because it is a fixed width font.

In Word, Courier New and Monospace821BT come closest, but are still off. We want to place our text between 9&12 and 3&6 o'clock spaced according to size of the arc. All the extra spaces get stripped out when I preview this post.

The "RK 73217 D-2 5/05" is spaced from 9 to 12 o'clock.

The "W.R.-B 8.625 O.D." is spaced from 3 to 6 oclock

 

CenterDia/Rad of StampR is 8.25/4.125

USING .375 LETTERS. 3.9375 IS LETTER RADIUS

6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6

RK 73217 D-2 5/05 W.R.-B 8.625 O.D.

 

 

CenterDia/Rad of StampR is 8.50/4.25

USING .375 LETTERS. 4.0625 IS LETTER RADIUS

6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6

RK 73217 D-2 5/05 W.R.-B 8.625 O.D.

 

 

CenterDia of StampR is 9.00

USING .375 LETTERS. 4.3125 IS LETTER RADI 4.5 IS CENTER OF STAMP

6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6

RK 73217 D-2 5/05 W.R.-B 8.625 O.D.

 

 

Thanks.

 

wire123

[Lee.]

Is this Font actually availabe as a TTF?

[wire123]

Unknown.

[Lee.]

How do you arrive at the fact that you need to assimilate this font, if in fact it does not exist?

[wire123]

?? I don't understand your question. I'm not trying to assimilate anything.

[Lee.]

"Does anyone know which font is most similar in proportion to the box font?"

 

I'm just trying to help, but these are your words.

[wire123]

And I appreciate it. I think we may be talking past each other. I was thinking that if there is a font close enough to the box font, I could use Word to creat the templates. The bigger the radius, the wider spaced the numbers for the clock positions. You could then place your words appropriately for the radius and not have to adjust them.

[Lee.]

I'm just not sure what a box font is.

 

Could you explain?

[deeherk]

if you were using box font and used true type,arial,ect....couldn't you pick the size of letters and then select your arc, top or bottom??

and then rotate to your 9 & 12 0'clock position...

dan

[wire123]

The Box Font is a stick font MCAM created and supplies.

 

I could manually rotate my strings, but that adds extra steps for the end user. I am trying to minimize that with templates. I also don't know what height/width ratio those TT fonts use. I tried to find one that seemed to come close, but no luck.

 

New information.

If you go into the MCAM9 dir and find the CommonFontsBox. There is a Letters.DAT text file detailing the width of characters based upon a 1.4 height (MCAM doesn't tell you the height used). That ratio scales up or down. So I may have found a solution to my problem.