> Ideally this kind of thing should be roughly on a log scale, along the lines of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferred_number, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renard_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-series_of_preferred_numbers

Traditionally various "gauge" units have been used (e.g. AWG[1]), which are more or less logarithmic. Not quite as elegant as Renard/E series, but still craftsmen and engineers of the past were not completely oblivious of the utility of such scales.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_wire_gauge