From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Jan 27 2003 - 16:21:00 PST
At 3:08 PM -0500 1/27/03, Mugno, Anthony wrote:
>They didnt have "fonts" back then. It was standard block lettering to the
>best of my knowledge
Font is a size of lettering. Typeface is a style of lettering. I
asked for a clarification on this from a friend who is in the
typeface industry.
>A "typeface" is a style of lettering. Before computers and before
>photosetting, a single "typeface" came in a finite number of discrete
>sizes. A set (or case) of letters of a single typeface for a single
>size (e.g. 12 point) was called a "fount" or "font."
>
>Lettering painted with stencils has far less to do with type design and more
>to do with sign painting, which is a lettering method rooted in the
>techniques of brush calligraphy.
>
>Machine-stamped lettering is a more naive form designed by engineers more
>for speed and durability than for beauty.
>
>Most any kind of lettering can be replicated digitally with a font, but
>not all lettering has been.
>
>Show me a picture of the lettering in question,.and I might be able to
>recommend a few fonts that might approximate it. For maximum authenticity
>your friend may want to hire a sign painter (I know a few.)
>
>Regards,
>--John
There you have it.
--
--
Ryan Gill rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
----------------------------------------------------------
| | | -==----
| O--=- | | /_8[*]°_\
|_/|o|_\_| | _________ | /_[===]_\
/ 00DA61 \ |/---------\| __/ \---
_w/|=_[__]_= \w_ // [_] o[]\\ _oO_\ /_O|_
|: O(4) == O :| _Oo\=======/_O_ |____\ /____|
|---\________/---| [__O_______W__] |x||_\ /_||x|
|s|\ /|s| |s|/BSV 575\|s| |x|-\| |/-|x|
|s|=\______/=|s| |s|=|_____|=|s| |x|--|_____|--|x|
|s| |s| |s| |s| |x| |x|
'60 Daimler Ferret '42 Daimler Dingo '42 Humber MkIV (1/2)
----------------------------------------------------------
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Wed Apr 23 2003 - 13:25:04 PDT