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Re: [CBQ] Freight Car Lettering

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Freight Car Lettering
From: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 08:48:25 -0500
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Rick,


"Railroad Roman" is a generic term for that kind of lettering. Each railroad and shop had their own variation. What the people in the decal business do is get a good side and end view and then do a vector trace of the lettering in Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw. Vector graphics eliminate the "jaggies" that bitmap graphics have and be scaled up. There are a few lurkers in this group who do their own decals, so hopefully they'll contact you about the what and hows of doing this.


Bill Hirt


On 4/22/2019 8:24 AM, Rick Keil wrote:
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I am attempting to make some decals for the original order of Airlsides.  Is there a specific type of Railroad Roman font for the reporting marks and data?

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