A friend of mine was the in-house carpenter at a big manufacturing plant and built desks, benches, stands, etc. all the time.
After talking to a zillion people about what they wanted him to build here and there in the plant he got a bit frustrated.

So, he took a tape-measure and put masking tape down the length of the blade right over the numbers.
Then he wrote along it with a Sharpie:
"Standard"
"Normal"
"Usual"
"Common"
"Whatever"
"You know"
"What Bob has"
etc...

:-)