First off, Rick, I would have to say the numbers in your example are
excellent. Yes, good contrast, easy to read, even at speed. The black
outline helps a lot too.
That said, the next guy who comes up with multicolor numbers and says "Hey,
Rick has multicolor on HIS car" probably does not do as good a job of it.
How do you write the rule that permits it without the inevitable example of
someone screwing it up? In fact, most who try would not do it as well.
There may be other ways to get that "tequila sunrise" effect. Paint the
whole door that way with the numbers in the solid blue matching the rest of
the car? Not that I'm telling you to repaint your door, just illustrating
optional possibilities.
Then again, the formula car at the top of the page, single-color numerals in
good contrast ... but is that a 46 or a 96, and where are the class letters?
Illustrating the difficulty of the issue. Rick's numbers would be illegal
but are clear and legible, the formula car's would be legal but hard to
read. As a basic rule, monocolor works better, but here are two examples
proving the exception!
--Rocky
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Brown" <free2000@quixnet.net>
To: <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: Vehicle Identification Proposal
> While I don't have a problem with the better defined size rules, I don't
> care for the "single color" part of it. Sure some color combos could be
bad
> but you can have that with a single color depending on the car color. Is
> this multi-color on my old car hard to read?
> http://scca.org/amateur/solo1/index.html (the Z-car at the bottom of the
> page) I've even had corner workers at a Solo1 compliment me on them. Hard
> to tell clearly in the low res JPEG, but they are red at the bottom, fade
to
> white in the middle then to yellow at the top with a bold black outline.
>
> Rick (don't like having my artistic side stifled) Brown
> BM D Sports Racer (destined to have the same number design) / F125
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