Perhaps we should change it to A Choo Choo.
It’s not too far off, actually.
That said, sometimes the differences between typefaces are subtle. I’ve got various catalogs of typefaces, and sometimes you just have to take their word for it that there’s a difference between Times Roman 1 and Times Roman 2, or whatever.
I often use Garamond for my fire department stuff. When I used to print tickets for the department (we don’t sell many anymore) I used a typeface I’d acquired called “Garamond Italic.” The catch was that I’d picked up an auxiliarly font of “swash” characters that I used, and I haven’t found them on-line.
One problem with using non-standard fonts on the computer (and you can get hundreds of them) is if you want to take a document to a copy center for printing. If they don’t have the font, it won’t come out the way you wanted it.
Nah… Logo Designers do not use fonts, they design a logo from scratch. There are just far to many things that need to be just right. Once they have a logo, they may then specify the fonts that they want to use with their equipment (Numbers, Letters etc) and on all of their corporate image.
LION was given the Independent font used by NYCT on the R-1s to R-38s and used by the IND on their original station signs. At least I can make new numbers for my subway cars.
ROAR
Larry,
I’m sure you know Courier is the font traditionally used on typewriters. I find it is easy to read. I assume it is a standard font. Here I make it bold because that looks to me more like a manual typewriter would look.
John
Overmod, I understand what you mean. Alcoholic… Workaholic. No… Workic.
this has a lot of fonts in it
I didn’t see Atlantic Coast Line or Seaboard Airline? Did I miss it?
No, although I dimly remember use of the Eurostile Bold Extended for one of them in passenger.
He revised the site extensively in late 2016, and it is possible that he would produce appropriate faces/fonts for either or both upon request.
It’s true. I have been known to take requests.
VGN Jess
I didn’t see Atlantic Coast Line or Seaboard Air Line? Did I miss it?
No, although I dimly remember use of the Eurostile Bold Extended for one of them in passenger.
He revised the site extensively in late 2016, and it is possible that he would produce appropriate faces/fonts for either or both upon request.
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A couple of years ago for my railroad themed wedding, I needed vector artwork for about 30 “classic” railroad heralds. With exactly three exceptions, I had to redraw them in Illustrator (UP and KCS had vector files on their websites and the B&O historical society had the Capitol Dome). They all contained letters or words.
Virtually all of those letters had to be hand drawn. Even ones that superficially resembled known or common typefaces had some sort of porportional difference that could not be recreated unless the individual letters were reconstructed and positioned manually.
And she was OK with that??
I have an entire cabinet in my letterpress print shop full of dashes, typecuts, and yes, dingbats.
I use some of the characters in the dingbat fonts for things like checkboxes when I’m creating forms.
Before she ever met me, she wanted to have her wedding at the Georgia State Railroad Museum, which is a pretty popular venue in Savannah. I made an offhand comment that we could refer to table 1, table 2, etc. as track 1, track 2, etc. and it sort of went from there.
Methinks You got a good lady.
Just for the heck of it, I stumbled upon the following, and remembered this thread:
An official Amtrak Livery and Logo guide. (note: will auto download a PDF to your computer)
And a place called “WhatFontIs”, claiming to have a collection of over 600,000 fonts, which if you upload a graphic of the font you are trying to match, they will offer a few of the closest matches for you to choose from.
Just about any railroads standard plan book has a sheet that specifically addresses that railroad’s own font, logo, lettering and style. How rigid those standards are becomes a function of how OCD corporate leadership and their marketing bubbas are in “protecting the brand”.
…and lawyers telling them what to do to keep the corporate image from leaking out into the public domain.
Two quickies. The Q in the Conrail Quality logo does not match that in the corporate “alphabet”. Lots and lots of handwringing and lawyers etc, before they decided it was okay to use.
The first NS DC to AC conversion (blue hedgehog) had a blue horse logo from the paint shop. The corporate folk went into a tizzy. The horse can only be black or white. Photos withdrawn. Loco back into the paint shop. I have a clandestine copy around here somewhere.
The Santa Fe “Quality” logo got to looking too much like Quaker Oats corporate logo. Logo withdrawn, but not before it got loose in the car shops. Gotta smile every time one appears on the upper corner of a covered hopper or boxcar, albeit faded.
And then there was the “No Wimps” safety campaign.[:$]