mreed911 wrote:dcphoto wrote:Regardless of the language of the signs, the lettering is not 1 inch in height. It simply isn't possible to fit that much text, at that height, on a single 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper. To be sure of this, I tried to create a compliant sign. I'll spare the details unless somebody wants proof; the best I was able to get was 1/2 inch letters.
That paper is 8.5 inches wide and has seven lines of text. That leave .75 inches top and bottom for margins with no space between lines, or .50 or even .25 inches margin (that sign looks like .75) with space between the lines.
It can absolutely be compliant, according to the math. I'm definitely not going to risk having to measure letters on a sign and get a jury to agree that .95 inches invalidates the notice as my defense to prosecution.
In real life, without an insanely narrow (and unreadable) font, it isn't possible. Try it yourself. Put the text in Word, set the font size to 72 points (which prints as one inch), and play with fonts and line spacing to try to make it fit. When you manage to do it, print it and post a picture with a ruler over the text. I have thousands of fonts, and wasn't able to find a non-artistic font that would fit. Certainly not a commonly available font, or any that ship with Microsoft Word.
