*BLF LT1 Lantern Project) (updated Nov,17,2020)

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Ethnocentric font.

I personally like Hemihead426 for the font; it looks cleaner to me. Either way, the lantern is going to be awesome and I don’t really care what the font is. :slight_smile:

Quick question though, the production sample looks to have a very heavily frosted/just white plastic globe; won’t that cut down a lot of the light output, while also making a very bright spot to glare in everyone’s eyes? I liked the medium frosted look of the 2nd prototype better for that. Granted, I’m not a lantern expert like DBSAR, nor am I involved in the design and production of it, so I bow out to greater people than I. Thanks for all your work DBSAR, have an awesome day.

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I’m torn between fixing the kerning between the L and the T, and further throwing off the balance of the left and right side. But that is just the musing of someone with too much time and too few lanterns.

That is one of the concerns i seen, and i will look at once i see the sample to test. in the photos sent to me it does look very heavily frosted, (much more than my V1 & V2 builds) which i will determine once i get the test unit. if its a heavy frost I will request the globe to be much closer to the prototype builds.

Below are the additions since last Sunday 4/21. If you haven’t already done so please check that your BLF user name is correct on either of the 2 linked lists shown on post #1. The names on the spreadsheets are taken directly from my database and it is from that source that the PMs will be generated. An incorrect user name means that you won’t be getting a PM when the buy goes live.

Send me a PM only if your name is incorrect

1382 HONDARIDER
1383 HONDARIDER
1384 minusic
1385 muller
1386 muller
1387 mr_magoo
1388 SvenWalker
1389 wstrachan
1390 christoph
1391 Keepitsharp
1392 n8_ball
1393 n8_ball
1394 Hollybrook
1395 pooptoast
1396 Wratz
1397 jimmymke
1398 RD
1399 terranaut
1400 Skuzapo
1401 blammergeier
1402 PleinPhare
1403 royalomaha
1404 headburger
1405 trigger619
1406 jamjar
1407 ChrYoko
1408 joomri
1409 FrozenSTIFF
1410 FrozenSTIFF
1411 renhoek
1412 Deca
1413 Coyotehawk
1414 krisz
1415 supanate7
1416 MokrySedeS
1417 Sparks65
1418 Inkidu
1419 CMU_84

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I still prefer a this font:

I would also prefer the old/original font. The HemiHead426 font doesn’t look bad either, but is maybe a bit to “industrial” with those splitted letters, while the Ethnocentric font just looks fat.

Heavy diffusors will probably transmit less light than mild ones, but apart from that:

I’m still planning a write-up about the effect of diffusors on the spectrum (I measured quite a few types now), but the general effect is a lowering (because of scattering more) of the blue peak resulting in a considerably lower CCT, can be almost 1000K for a heavy diffusor on cool white light. Warmer tints are less affected because they already have less blue. The CRI is not much affected btw. So if you want to stay close to the original colour tempeature of the leds, just a mild diffusion is desired.

Btw, this is also a concern for folks who add diffusors to light measuring things.

Yep, that’s why it is important to compensate for all sorts of surfaces and sheets the light has to travel through/reflect off when measuring light sources in a sphere for example. With a spectrometer that’s easy with an incandescent light source. Just measure the source in free air directly first, then in the sphere, normalize the SPD and create an absorption correction for every wavelength.

For people using the Argyll spotread this is now easier than ever, since I managed to get the developer to implement the compensation in real time with the -E flag using an absorption file. Before I did that manually in Excel.

Because my sphere measurements are all manual, and with a luxmeter instead of a spectrometer, I can’t do the correction on the spectrum unfortunately. For cool white light my most used sphere causes a CCT lowering of about 600K, that probably makes my readings off by a few percent for cool and warm leds.

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I agree. I do like the style of the original font better. The “B” is just fat around the two curves. It doesnt match the weight of the other letters and makes the left side logo look heavier than it already is.

Either way. When I’m using it and showing it off to everyone, I doubt any of this will be a factor.

As it was said in the BLF GT thread :

Here is a quick test with the Ubuntu Bold Font. (I didn’t verify the copyright (for commercial use, etc)).

Same with the battery tube a tad slimmer :

Pretty sure that the font can be even more “bolderized” in an another application than Gimp.

Here is a subjective selection of fonts (I didn’t check all the fonts listed)
Change the text and its size to have a better idea :

Quick test with one from the list (with slimmer battery tube) :

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I’m very interested. Put me down for two please!

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Two please. Orsm work.