[sdiy] Designing front panels for synths

[Gordonjcp]

No, no, not whether you should use Inkscape or Excel or some CAD package, actually designing them so they look good.

There's got to be some overlap on this list with people skilled in the visual arts.  How do you lay out the controls, connectors etc. on a panel so they look good, and don't look like the nightmarish "designed by engineer" crap that a lot of stuff seems to be?

I'm guessing there's some simple but non-obvious principles at work that could be explained if you could get past all the forum discussion of whether toner transfer is better than photoresist or Eagle is better than Illustrator or whatever.

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Gordonjcp