Font with slashes through zeros?

[Bill Jermyn]

Does anybody know of a font that has slashes through the zeros, or if there is an alt code to generate them?

[Bill Jermyn]

Here is the font.

[Mike Null]

Bill
You can pick those up from the symbol character menu under text in Corel
Select the font you want to use and open the docker it should appear.

If it doesn't you probably haven't selected it when you set up tool options. This takes only a couple of minutes to do. Roy Brewer's tutorials on his Engraving Concepts web site will tell you how.

[Bill Jermyn]

Thank you Mike, I will check that out.

Can anybody identify the font in my second posting?

[Mike Null]

Bill
My guess is that it's Arial. The fly in that ointment is the 9 but it looks handmade. You could do the same.

Notice that the 6 is normal looking so I'm wondering if what I called a 9 may be a q.

[Doug Griffith]

Try this in any font, hold down the ALT key, type 0216 on the numeric keypad, then release the ALT key.

(on a Mac its option-O)

Cheers

[Scott Shepherd]

Bill, to expand on what Mike's saying, those are all active characters in most fonts. You need to look at the character map and it will tell you how to make it. Looking under the "Insert Character" docker, scroll down and you'll find it. Click on the letter you want and it'll show you a code at the bottom. Something like "Alt #" and then some digits.

So in Arial, to make the O with a slash through it, you'd hold down the Alt key and type in 0216 and it'll make that character.

It's very common in electrical signage and it has a specific meaning (phase, I think, but I could be wrong).

Hope that adds to what Mike said and helps some.

Dang it, Doug beat me to it!

[Doug Griffith]

By 3 minutes!

In math it is called an oslash.

[Darren Null]

Try this in any font, hold down the ALT key, type 0216 on the numeric keypad, then release the ALT key.

Doesn't work for me. With the number lock on (awkward on laptops), ALT and a 3-figure number in the range 000-256 will pop up various characters. The arrangement depends on which country keyboard you're using.

[Bill Jermyn]

Almost, Alt-0216 is an oh with a slash, not a zero.

[Bill Jermyn]

I managed to do it, I just typed in a slash elsewhere on the page and moved it on top of the zero. It would be nice to have a font that already had the slashes though....

[Doug Griffith]

Try this one:
http://www.dafont.com/crystal.font

[Scott Shepherd]

That's very interesting, I've never seen any electrical tags with the zero's slashed out. In talking with the people we've worked with on them, we've always been told that it comes after things like 3Ø. Meaning 3 phase. I've not seen anyone call out the zero's with slashes.

[Doug Griffith]

Call me a geek but if I hand write anything, which is rare, I always slash my zeros. Zs as well to differentiate them from 2s.

[Scott Shepherd]

I do that too Doug, but in this case, I believe the slash has a meaning according to the code books, but I could be wrong.