Does anyone know of any font families that 6, 9, 8, 0 look exactly the same upside down as right side up? The 6 upside down would look like 9 and vice-verse. Thanks!
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2search for 'geometric sans' for some likely candidates.– DA01Feb 7, 2013 at 2:28
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As DA01 mentions, a search for "geometric sans" will give you great results. These are some of the ones listed under this category in Font Shop, the 8s are more irregular, but you can probably find some that are completely symmetric.
Futura
Avenir
ICT Bauhaus
ICT Kabel
ICT Serif Gothic
Faricy
Transfer Superset
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1Avenir, Bauhaus, Serif Gothic, and Transfer all have the very common feature of vertical but not horizontal axis symmetry. In other words, you can tell when they're flipped on their heads.. Feb 7, 2013 at 5:39
Font's that are very modular, like Variable, are a good place to look. Anything humanist or old style is going to have too much modulation to fit your requirement.
Case in point, try a search for "modular" at MyFonts and Variable and many others that fit your request come right up.
Futura is a popular one
But the 8 is slightly bigger on the bottom than on the top, now that I look at it in photoshop.
answered Feb 7, 2013 at 1:55
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Futura follows a number of old style proportioning techniques. For this reason, it's characters are not truly geometric or modular. Feb 7, 2013 at 5:41