[sdiy] Designing front panels for synths

[ColinMuirDorward]

 David, Mattias Rickardsson is a contributor on this thread who offered a
critique of your "kernless" (is that a word?) font.
Your rebuttal was addressed to "Colin", but I think that's me.

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 5:56 PM David G Dixon <dixon at mail.ubc.ca> wrote:

> That's a funny story!  Because, from the very first board I ever made, I
> ALWAYS run the resistor stripes in the same direction.  In fact, if I
> accidentally install one upside-down, I will actually suck it off and
> re-install it.
>
>
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> On 10/13/2020 2:48 PM, David G Dixon wrote:
> > Yeah, Colin, that never bothered me in the slightest.  In fact, I have
> > never noticed it until you mentioned it, and I must confess that the
>
> This is how it starts. :-)  Once upon a time I had a guy upset that a
> little
> perf-board project I did for him didn't have the resistor color codes all
> running the same way. It had never crossed my mind. Now I'm cursed and
> solder my PTH resistors as if they were polaraized. And maybe I'll just
> pass
> that curse on to all of you.
>
> Anyway, I am firmly in the camp of those that have responded so far.
> Avant garde front panels would hurt my engineering brain too much.
>
> GB
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