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Choosing a Font/Marker Scale

See which font and marker size to choose for different sized floor plans and how to fix signs exporting as dots

How did the snake get across the ocean? He used a scale-boat!

Not sure what scale to choose? This article will give you some good rule of thumb choices for different sizes of location plans.

Page Size

Page Name

Font/Marker Scale

Locations with 500+ Signs

Real Marker Size after Export
8.5” x 11” Letter 1 0.75 0.05"
11” x 17” Tabloid 2 1.5 0.1"
24” x 36” Architectural D 3 - 4 2 0.15” - 0.2"
36” x 48” Architectural E 4 - 6 4 0.2” - 0.3"
Note that you can also use decimals like 1.5 if you'd prefer something in between! 

Help! My Signs are Exporting as Dots

The system will revert sign markers to dots when it doesn't have enough room to display them normally without overlapping information. When on the web or in the app, we can see the markers simply by zooming in further or turning off the visibility for some signs. In exports however, we have to decrease the font and marker scale which can be done in the export settings.


Tip: a number between 1 and 3 is usually best. This could be 1.25, 2.5, 2.75, etc.

There are 3 factors that can contribute to the system not having enough room to display markers:
  1. Lots of signs on a plan
  2. Sign markers that are tightly clustered together (this is most common)
  3. Long sign IDs

If reducing the marker and font size does not resolve this, or the resulting tags are too small to read, you'll need to turn off the visibility of some signs so that the system can display them fully and export your plans a few times with different sign types turned on and off.

If you plot signs directly on top of each other, the export will always display signs as dots. In this case, you MUST turn off some sign types. If the signs plotted on top of each other are of the same type, you'll need to combine them (for example, if they are locker room numbers, use one marker and assign a quantity) or assign some of them to a different sign type. We recommend avoiding plotting signs directly on top of each other for this reason.