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Marine Font
Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 24, 2003 10:20 PM
Does anybody know what font the Marine Corps used on their aircraft during 1939-1942?
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  • From: Pominville, NY
Posted by BlackWolf3945 on Wednesday, June 25, 2003 1:51 AM
Dunno if it has an actual name. Just do a bit of research and see what the lettering looked like, find a font that's close and go to town makin' decals! LOL


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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 25, 2003 3:23 PM
Dont reply if you don't know!!! Thanks
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Posted by BlackWolf3945 on Wednesday, June 25, 2003 9:41 PM
Uh... okay, whatever.


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Posted by mostlyjets on Wednesday, June 25, 2003 9:55 PM
Everything I find shows various sizes of block lettering. renarts? You seem to be the font guy.
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Posted by renarts on Thursday, June 26, 2003 4:19 PM
Most of the US stuff like most others is again sans seriff. If you wanted to use a Letraset or Chartpak press type I would look in the font families:
Helvetica
Arial
Achen
Micogamma
Machine
Collegate (open & Closed)
Futura
Swiss

When I say families I mean look at the various sub fonts of each particular font, i.e. Bold, Narrow, Extended, Italic, Black (a really bold letter).

So far I have only seen Russian aircraft using seriffed type fonts.

I have seen the Italians use a stencil letter or number.
Look for:
Stamp
Sencil
and their related families.

There are a few thousand type fonts. Some are the same exact font just using different names. (You can copyright a font name, but you can't copyright a font) But these should give you a head start.

Look for these presstype sheets in art supply stores, engineering supply houses, some craft stores and the scrapbook supply stores that are popping up everywhere. They produce the sheets in different colors so they serve quite a few mediums.

Mike

Mike "Imagination is the dye that colors our lives" Marcus Aurellius A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
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