Timeline for Font from old 70's American engineering schematics
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| Jan 3, 2017 at 5:03 | comment | added | DA01 | I think it's plausible that they were stenciled by hand--at that resolution it's really impossible to tell. But in 1970 we had photo typesetting and, of course, just a good ol-electric typewriter could have set that type just as well. So it could just as likely have been done mechanically. | |
| Dec 31, 2016 at 0:47 | comment | added | joojaa | For anybody interested type 3 fonts are even easier to do as outlined by this post @RadLexus its then relatively easy to read into say fontforge to convert it to OTF | |
| Dec 31, 2016 at 0:30 | comment | added | joojaa | @RadLexus Yes, once you get the first letter (usually E) done then the next few (F, I, L, H, T, X, Y, Z) take about 15-30 seconds each (its faster than drawing them). The upper letters are done in no time, with exception of S that is just frigging hard to do by hand. Now the lower case letters are a bit more painful. | |
| Dec 31, 2016 at 0:10 | comment | added | Jongware | You make fonts wiv Notepad? How – by entering raw Type 1 instructions? (Slightly reminiscent of "well in my days we had to save to disk by plotting the bits with a magnetized needle...") | |
| Dec 30, 2016 at 22:46 | comment | added | joojaa | +9 FFS! I didn't even present how you can do this font in about 2-3 hours using notepad (ok so not the letter S that takes as much work as the rest combined). | |
| S Dec 30, 2016 at 19:02 | history | suggested | DavidPostill | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 30, 2016 at 12:59 | history | edited | joojaa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 30, 2016 at 12:54 | history | edited | joojaa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 30, 2016 at 12:46 | history | answered | joojaa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |