WatchTech

I'm following up on the One is the Loneliest Number post of a few days ago. And relating this as well to the Hand-Written Dial post. Here are some character sets with all the numerals. All of these were originally in 18 pt type, so roughly the same height...  

Dial design is such a major part of a watch, and these little details make all the difference

...should be hand-kerned and deliberately placed to a small fraction of an inch. When I was writing and laying out advertising, or designing retail packaging, I never typed a headline or subhead that I didn't go back and kern. Unfortunately, many watch ma... 

Just in case people wonder, it has been described this way by Adobe (maker of document-creation software including Illustrator and In-Design): Kerning is the spacing between individual letters or characters. Unlike tracking, which adjusts the amount of sp... 

...I've spent a lifetime doing what most people never even notice : )

People say “who needs an editor nowadays? With Spellcheck and Grammarly? Anyone can do a book.” Ha!

My favorite dial of the ones you posted here is the AMVOX .... Great topic, cheers, Filip