: Looking for font where 6 is very different from upside-down 9 This question is the opposite of what was asked here: Does anyone know of any font families that 6, 9, 8, 0 look the same upside

@Cofer715

I have gone through my installed fonts using Character Map and these are the ones I found:
Alex Brush; Amatic; ColdSpaghetti; Darlin; Galeforce; Heather; Holiday Springs; Orbit-B; Patrick Hand; Permanent Marker; Rock Salt; Sandscript; Script; Segoe Print; Segoe Script; Sue Ellen Francisco; Undercurrent; Youngsook

The only ones from that list I would bother with: in order of preference:
Patrick Hand, very nice had written look;
Orbit BT, squarish futuristic but very clear;
Segoe Script, nice hand-written look;
Segoe Print, nice hand-written look;
Alex Brush, nice script type but a bit faint;
Permanent Marker, hand-written look, but a bit heavy.

Patrick Hand will do fine for my CAD dimensions but there is an unfortunate lack of a formal type font among my fonts, which is quite disappointing.

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@Chiappetta793

I decided to answer my own question. @Copilot suggested some fonts, and @Cai suggested that I ought to use dots or lines to indicate the correct orientation.

After browsing some other fonts by their images (see below) I decided that the ones that sort of differentiate between the digits were not different enough or were too ugly (personal preferences).

I've also considered using "06" and "09" but even for dices with values under 20 these could be read as "90" or "60".

I will design two set of dice: one with the pips and one with the numbers with small dots to indicate orientation.

Thanks for all the suggestions!

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@Nimeshi706

I don't have a font suggestion for you, but I want to challenge the idea.

The problem with 6 and 9 on a dice isn't that they look the same as each other—the problem is that a 6 or 9 could be seen as either, so your 6 will still look like a 9 when rotated 180 degrees, and your 9 will still look like a 6 when rotated 180 degrees, even though they are different from each other.

This is why they are normally differentiated by a line underneath, a dot, or something similar—to indicate the correct orientation, not only differentiate the glyphs.

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@LarsenBagley460

Wow, that's surprisingly hard! Some script fonts do - Segoe Script and on a Mac Klee, Nanum Pen Script, Wawati. A geometric sans-serif might, but I don't know of one that does.

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