With the great selection of 4 mm road vehicles now available, I want to customise some of the numberplates.
Does anyone know what typeface/font would be most suitable for 1950s style (white on black, 3.5 inches high) numberplates?
Thanks.
Arial
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:02:47 +1100, "John Nuttall" said in :
Arial is OK but you have to be careful about the font weight and use a good printer (laser not inkjet) I reckon. I am doing this myself as we speak :-)
Guy
"Charles Wright" font ?
Had a quick look on the =91net and found
Chris
"Charles Wright" font ?
Had a quick look on the ?net and found
Chris
Chris, that looks like what I want. Many thanks.
"Charles Wright" font ?
Had a quick look on the ?net and found
Chris
*****Chris -
It appears that Charles Wright is not available as a free font but a derivative called Mandatory is available at
Thanks again.
That is the curent font not 50's
Until that miserable lot in Europe started to dictate the style used on plates there used to be some classic ones.
I used to like the raised 3D type of plastic or chrome digits and the one's made up of chrome lines.
Chris
It's not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of fight in the dog.
Trev -
That's a fascinating document which I have saved for reference, but the fonts don't look right to me. Perhaps they are not intended to be representative.
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:02:47 +1100, "John Nuttall" said in :
Just as an aside, a 600dpi laser seems to be adequate for the job of printing these and I think if you print them in white on black onto laser transparency film and then paint the reverse silver you will get the right effect, though ideally they should of course be embossed.
I guess you could photo etch onto PCB if you care that much :-)
Guy
I use silver decal paper, spray it with matt varnish (Testors Dullcote), print the numberplates with a Laserjet then spray again. I carefully cut out the plate, leaving a narrow silver border. They look very good.
On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:35:35 -0400, MartinS said in :
That sounds a bit keen! But I will of course have to try it.
Guy
The BIG question is .... what reg' are you going to use ?
Chris
On Sat, 4 Apr 2009 19:43:38 -0700 (PDT), snipped-for-privacy@o2.co.uk said in :
DMU 828A on a willow green mini van, that was the van my dad used while he was building the house I grew up in :-)
Guy
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