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Title: Aircraft lettering...Fonts
Post by: Guppy35 on September 06, 2004, 02:33:23 PM

One of the things I keep seeing on what are otherwise great skins, are aircraft lettering that is based on the wrong fonts.

I don't do the skins, but I've done a lot of profiles of aircraft.  You can get fonts that help a lot in the look.  Needless to say the RAF, USAAF, Luftwaffe, etc had their own style of lettering on aircraft.

Try here:

http://www.1java.org/sh/fonts.html

This also has a lot of aircraft markings that might help.

http://www.1java.org/sh/markings.html

More fonts here:

http://hans.presto.tripod.com/fonts/stencil5.html

I think you'll be surprised at the difference in how it looks

Dan/Slack

Title: Aircraft lettering...Fonts
Post by: United on September 06, 2004, 03:04:25 PM

Great info there Guppy.  Thanks for posting.  I downloaded the RAF and USAAF fonts from another source and it does make a huge difference in the final outlook.

Title: fonts stupid question
Post by: rogerdee on September 07, 2004, 09:58:21 AM

ok  i down loaded  the  fonts  and  it  comes  up  as   a page  to print? i  cant  use  it  by clicking and pasting?
  i printed  it  then scaned  it  back  to the  pc  and  it  looks  crap.
        so  guys  how  do  you  use  these  fonts.i got  ps8  and  i  tried  evverything to get a  good  font  but  it  sucks?
       how do you do it?

please  tell  me



rogerdee

Title: Aircraft lettering...Fonts
Post by: Nomde on September 07, 2004, 10:27:45 AM

Guppy,
Excellent reference bro:aok

Title: Re: fonts stupid question
Post by: Guppy35 on September 07, 2004, 01:23:29 PM

Quote

Originally posted by rogerdee
ok  i down loaded  the  fonts  and  it  comes  up  as   a page  to print? i  cant  use  it  by clicking and pasting?
  i printed  it  then scaned  it  back  to the  pc  and  it  looks  crap.
        so  guys  how  do  you  use  these  fonts.i got  ps8  and  i  tried  evverything to get a  good  font  but  it  sucks?
       how do you do it?

please  tell  me



rogerdee

Did you load the fonts to your fonts folder?  Also sometimes you have to use the "Character Map" from the system tools to copy and paste them.

Dan/Slack

Title: Aircraft lettering...Fonts
Post by: Dux on September 07, 2004, 02:16:59 PM

Thanks, Guppy... nice fonts. :)