white number on yellow car enough contrast?

Andrew Jonell · **Joined:** Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:43 pm **Posts:** 1350

Use purple for ultimate contrast (color wheel!!)

A cheap option is to use electrical tape to give it a nice, thick, black border.

Les Davis · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 2:04 pm **Posts:** 2059

Andrew Jonell wrote:

Use purple for ultimate contrast (color wheel!!)

A cheap option is to use electrical tape to give it a nice, thick, black border.

Please don't just do a border, keep the mental health of your T&S staff and course workers in mind. A border is better than nothing, but solid contrasting numbers are MUCH easier to see from a distance and at angles.

steve remchak · **Posted:** Tue Feb 21, 2012 10:12 pm

hit enough cones and "that yellow S2000" should suffice. :lol:

RobLupella · **Posted:** Tue Feb 21, 2012 10:32 pm

You could paint the car black.

There problem solved :lol:

Bin Hu · **Joined:** Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:14 am **Posts:** 13

I like this one!

RobLupella wrote:

You could paint the car black.

There problem solved :lol:

Bin Hu · **Joined:** Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:14 am **Posts:** 13

well, I take your suggestion and spend another 20mins painting all numbers black. Now it should be perfect.

Les Davis wrote:

Andrew Jonell wrote:

Use purple for ultimate contrast (color wheel!!)

A cheap option is to use electrical tape to give it a nice, thick, black border.

Please don't just do a border, keep the mental health of your T&S staff and course workers in mind. A border is better than nothing, but like solid contrasting numbers are MUCH easier to see from a distance and at angles.

Matt McGrain · **Posted:** Wed Feb 22, 2012 9:43 am

On another numbers/letters note, my fellow THSCC'ers are welcomed to make fun of me this season.

When I called SPS to order the "str" I asked what size and font my "gs" were from last year. They told me Euro in the 10" font. Bad call. The numbers were 10's but the G & S were 6 or 8". Soooo, I now have illegal class letters since they are identical in size to the digits, which should a percentage less. Until I stuck them on, I was worried the S2000 doors weren't long enough to have all five letters & numbers.

No protests allowed in STR this year, btw. j/k :lol:

Kevin Allen · **Joined:** Thu Aug 28, 2003 6:42 pm **Posts:** 3479

Illegal? I just thought the numbers had to be > 8" tall and the letters had to be > 4" tall. Has that changed?

Matt McGrain · **Posted:** Wed Feb 22, 2012 1:53 pm

Section 3.7 sez: wrote:

In all cases,
the height of the class letters must be between 25% and 75% of
the height of the numbers.

Makes sense though..

JamesMilko · **Posted:** Wed Feb 22, 2012 2:43 pm

Matt McGrain wrote:

Section 3.7 sez: wrote:

In all cases,
the class letters must made the day of from painter's tape
the height of the numbers is whatever the last HPDE gave me.

Makes sense though..

Fixed for me.

Bin Hu · **Joined:** Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:14 am **Posts:** 13

What?! I didn't see this rule on our webpage. http://www.thscc.com/autocross/info/numspecs.html

Matt McGrain wrote:

Section 3.7 sez: wrote:

In all cases,
the height of the class letters must be between 25% and 75% of
the height of the numbers.

Makes sense though..

Steven Carter · **Posted:** Wed Feb 22, 2012 5:13 pm

3.7 (e) references the SCCA Solo rules. Go to scca.com for more info. Our website references part of that rule, as 4" high letters are 50% as high as 8" numbers.

steve remchak · **Posted:** Wed Feb 22, 2012 5:36 pm

so Bin, do you own a torque wrench?

if anyone protests the size of your numbers........... just clock them with the torque wrench. a nice breaker bar will do just as well. :mrgreen:

steve remchak · **Posted:** Thu Feb 23, 2012 11:15 am

[img]THSCC2009Charity11286-vi.jpg[/img]

some of my best number work :lol:

Ryan Holton · **Posted:** Thu Feb 23, 2012 11:16 am

steve remchak wrote:

[img]THSCC2009Charity11286-vi.jpg[/img]

some of my best number work :lol:

Not some of your best internet work though....10am is bit early to start drinking Steve.

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