Digital photographic artifact reference scales, ready to use.

It all started some years ago...

A friend of mine was working on a Ph.D. in Egyptology. He needed to show some reference scales near the photos of ancient artifacts. He searched on the web for this type of stuff but there isn't any source to use. So I designed for him some reference scales in Adobe Illustrator. These scales can be used to give dimensional context to photos of artifacts on any other object. You can import them in the most used design and typography software.

I shared my work with the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
Enjoy it and make it useful. Cheers.

128 reference scales

Screenshot of all the reference scales from Adobe Illustrator

Four layouts

Simple reference scale with with white and block blocks

Simple

Simple reference scale with with white and block blocks and a gray color reference from white to black

Gray shades reference scale

Simple reference scale with with white and block blocks and a square 6 colors reference

Six color reference scale


Simple reference scale with with white and block blocks and a 6 colors reference plus a grey scale reference

Six color reference scale

plus gray shades scale

Ready to use on dark backgrounds

Simple reference scale with with white and block blocks and a square 6 colors reference and a grey scale on black background

Two different number placement

Detail of a reference scale with unit numbers placed on top

Numbers on top


Detail of a reference scale with unit numbers placed on the left at the end of the scale

Numbers on the left


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Some details

Format file: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe PDF, EPS, PNG, SVG

File size: 9.149 KB

Font used: Myriad Pro

Version: 1.0

License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Author: Andrea Mancini (Donate!)


All the scales are marked with the metric unit of measurement, but you can edit the file and make it different.