Looking for a font type

[RAF_Loke]

It is this type I'm looking for...



Used on Albatros aircraft's in WW1.
Any one know where I might find it?

Cheers

[joes1944]

Have you tried "dafont.com" ?
You pick a font type, you type in the number or letter your looking for in custom preview and the results show up. Then click on the matching results and save as.
It can become a bit of work but,,,,

[RAF_Loke]

No I haven't, but will check it out. Thanks .

[BLOWHARD]

Unless I miss my guess, it's not a font but rather hand drawn letters. They used hand cut stencils back then. I've never been able to find any fonts to match what I see on real aircraft. Instead I convert the closest font to vectors and modify it that way.

You could try Bernard MT
Bernard MT Condensed?|?Unicode?|?A-B?|?TTF?|? >>> Free True Type Fonts
On the other hand, there is a guy over at the Aerodrome who makes serial fonts for several manufacturers. He did them a while back and I'm not sure if he's still handing them out. If you do ask him for them, please ask nicely. I'm sure when he started giving out free fonts he didn't anticipate people from all over wanting them
More serial number fonts available, Albatros and Austro/Hungarian - The Aerodrome Forum

[RAF_Loke]

I've been told that the Albatros factory had one man employed making the numbers only. Hand painted of course.

[RAF_Loke]

Wrote Mike, crossing fingers.

Used the Bernard font for now.

[BLOWHARD]

A few more things and you've got it, the radiator is center mounded, not offset, and the weights table is higher and partially overpainted by the red wavy line. Also notice the cross on the turtle deck is considerably smaller and of different proportions than the side crosses.


BTW, if I were you I would have left the rudder white or off-white. I think "Troy Raines" over at the Aerodrome is wrong as can be clearly seen in the photos.

[RAF_Loke]

Gotta agree with you that it does look white.

[RAF_Loke]

Received the font types from Mike .

Update on the drawing, so it looks like this now - with white rudder.

[BLOWHARD]

I see Dan-San seems to think it's got a pale green rudder. He's probably right but you've got to wonder...
You still need to fix the small cross on the top of the fuselage. Notice in the photos it's smaller and more exaggerated.