A place where restoration project-type threads can go to avoid falling off the main page in the WIX hangar. Feel free to start threads on Restoration projects and/or warbird maintenance here. Named in memoriam for Gary Austin, a good friend of the site and known as RetroAviation here. He will be sorely missed.
Tue May 29, 2012 8:07 pm
I have been asked to help reproduce numerous placards for a wartime L-5 restoration. Does anyone know what font (if there was a specific one) was used during the WWII years for placards on U.S. aircraft, and specifically, the L-5? I know it will not be a font that would be readily available in electronic form today, but if I can find out what it was, I can modify something else that is close to recreate what I need.
Many thanks in advance for any help or recommendations you guys can provide.
Mike
Sun Jul 15, 2012 3:56 pm
Well, I don't know about the L-5,
but the B-17 used two main fonts:
Bernhard Gothic Std Heavy font
Pioneer font
I found Bernhard Gothic available for purchase,
but have never found the Pioneer type face.
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