Font....
My thoughts exactly!
Can anyone ID the font on the COD's tail?...Don
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The term "font" comes from the printer's lexicon going back decades if not centuries...
Before Windows hardly anyone outside the business used it...
Now, if you are trying to reproduce it for a repaint... to my knowledge... the US Navy of
the reference picture I don't think you will find it in any list of fonts... for the original lettering
on Navy aircraft and ships was simply called "block lettering" with mitered corners inside and
outside which was used semi-standardized until the early sixties... (not all assets were the
same because they were hand or spray painted by different people in different units, and some
were made into giant size decalcomanias (decals for short) fairly standardized).
In the late sixties this type of lettering was replaced (for quite a while) by a similar type with
inside corners not mitered. [I posted a very simple tutorial to reproduce it somewhere here].
No need for great painting skills... just keep the general proportions starting with an "O"...
miter the corners a bit less (from the standard 45 degrees to maybe 30 or so)
from the O you can fashion R, C, Q, P, etc. by adding or deleting parts...
If you are using Photoshop, PSP, etc. make yourself a template with a transparent background
you can use for all occasions... if you are industrious enough and lazy (like I am) do different sizes
- but being such simple shapes... re-sizing bring little detail loss - and voila' you got lettering for
almost any occasion.
ps: The Eurostile font approximates it but it is really an
ersatz thing - sort of like diet
drinks... if you want the real taste...:mixedsmi: get the real thing...
no Diet Coke comes close to the original....
For any further tutorials just PM me is this if of help
