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Font from old 70's American engineering schematics
Because of the time period these are most likely hand drawn. Probably using stencil, to save time*. Using a stencil explains why 0, O, I, 1 and also the foot of R are done this way, simply they are ...
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Font from old 70's American engineering schematics
Man, this is a blast from the past. I worked in a mapmaking company in the early 1980s. The draftsmen and -women used Leroy lettering. This was a little self-contained pantograph that traced letters ...
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Font from old 70's American engineering schematics
Coniglio Sublime looks like a good digital match for that stencil, albeit with a disambiguating hook on the '1'.
DIN 17 SB isn't too far off, but its rounded letters like "C" have vertical straight ...
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Font from old 70's American engineering schematics
If these were lettered with ink then they used a set made by KOH-I-NOOR lettering set that had templates with the letters routed into plastic and a slot that ran the full length of the template (they ...
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Font from old 70's American engineering schematics
The standardized font for most CAD programs is ASME Y14.5M (not the catchiest name but it does its job):
It changes ever so slightly over the years, including differentiating 1 and I and 0 and O ...
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Font from old 70's American engineering schematics
you might wanna check:
http://fontzzz.com/font/10006_engineering_plot.htm
almost perfect match, just reduce the height a little and there you go.
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Font from old 70's American engineering schematics
In Germany one such font was standardized as the so-called "Normschrift" (the German WP page on this: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normschrift, search terms: "DIN 6776" or "ISO 3098") and there are ...
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Font from old 70's American engineering schematics
Depending on how strict the glyph requirements are (e.g. a bar for the digit 1, common "zero" and upperase letter "O", etc.), there could be a viable option from FontSquirrel, Blogger Sans:
And to ...
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How to lay out ornate victorian-style graphics?
For actual drawing of curves on physical medium one would use some kind of guides. Rulers, curve templates, and physical splines are readily available. Rulers and french curves are surely in the ...
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What are these design elements often found in vintage newspapers and texts called?
Flourishes, ornaments, fleurons, dingbats, embellishments.
Basically any term which describes additional, possibly unnecessary, ornamental, items. There's no real specific typography term. (Except ...
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What is this vintage color effect and how to achieve it?
There are a lot of Camera Raw presets that can emulate film photography stock in different ways, like VSCO (no affiliation), or manually, with this particular look I guess you can try a mix of the ...
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Name of this style: Vintage, b/w, line-filled?
That's wood cut block printing.
With wood block printing, the negative parts of the images are carved away. With engraving, the positive parts of the images are carved away.
Woodcut or block ...
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How do I get this vintage/retro look using Photoshop?
I see no blur. There's more going on here I think.
This is a quick and easy vintage photo effect for the most recent version of Photoshop CC. Convert the image layer to a Smart Object, and apply the ...
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Create engraving in GIMP/Inkscape
Using Gimp's Filters > Distorts > Newsprint filter with the Line Spot function is another way to do a fake engraving effect. I enlarged the pear in the above answer by 400% to get a 2724x1744 image. ...
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Font from old 70's American engineering schematics
I was excited to see this question and was reading through the answers to see if anyone would mention the Leroy lettering set from Keuffel & Esser This is a topic near and dear to my heart because ...
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Font from 1986 or earlier used in OrCAD
It wouldn't actually be all that difficult to recreate this font yourself. Your image appears to have almost every digit and letter (both uppercase and lowercase, apart from Q maybe), so you won't ...
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Font from 1986 or earlier used in OrCAD
This isn't a brand-name font, it's a monospaced bitmap font, one in which the font is recorded as pixels rather than as lines and arcs. I'm afraid these designs are generally designed or licensed for ...
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1980s technical book serif all caps font
This is Rockwell Bold Italic. Different cuts of Rockwell have slightly different weights: the Monotype version looks slightly lighter than the sample.
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How would you go about making these sorts of textures in Illustrator, and what is this style called, specifically?
These are woodcuts or linocuts. Originally hand carved. There are lots of photoshop filters to do this as well as web based ones. Don't know of an Illustrator effect to do this, but if done first in ...
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Vintage photos and inkscape: removing "yellow" background
You can't do it in Inkscape. Inkscape is a vector image editor, it can't edit raster images.
Use GIMP instead. It's free and Open Source like Inkscape.
Open the image, then do Colors > Components > ...
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Typeface Identification
This is standard architectural lettering for the period. I was trained in lettering when I learned manual draughting years ago: first, you draw baseline and topline construction lines, using either a ...
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Font from old 70's American engineering schematics
A few things on this font, like the wide/high 'R' and the 'G' with no tail look a bit like Venus, and that would be my suggestion if you wanted a "professional" font with a similar aesthetic. But this ...
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