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NHS Hospital door signs – text size?
Got a quote to do for a load of ‘slatz’ door plates.
Have (from thinking what I’ve seen!) got the plate size & height as there’s only a few different ones made by Spandex – but I asked the architect the text height…there doesn’t appear to be one in the ‘HTM’ regulations that they could see, just "whatever it normally is".
So – anybody know what the typical text height is for door plates about 300 to 350mm long. Font is Stone Sans. Specific BS colours etc.
Or even the full spec.
Thanks.
Dave
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Last time I ever did any the text was 20mm cap height. Mind you, that was 15 years ago. There was an official guide available at the time. They always specified a font called "Health" which was similar to Helvetica.
So, not much help really.
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I always thought the hospital signs had to be on Darvic material which comes in "Hospital brown" Text height is sized according to sign size as laid out in their rules and regs book. Or have things changed in the last few years???
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No, I was putting ‘slatz’ type systems in hospitals years ago (early 90s) in a range of colours.
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if your sign is 300 mm long then it is a ‘u’ or a ‘v’ style sign.
x height for one of these is 15.0mm. Note that the ‘x’ height is a lower case x and all text lines are centered vertically on the lower case letters not the capitals.
This can all be found in the Health Technical Memorandum 65 (HTM65), when I bought mine I got it from HMSO books (her majestys stationery office). If there was one page that made it clear I would scan it for you, but it is full of cross references.
But I’m not really sure if anyone pays attention to it any moreedit:
colours
light brown – 08 b 17
mid brown – 08 b 25
red – 04 e 53
yellow – 10 e 55
blue – 14 e 53
green – 14 e 53all BS 5252 colours
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