As the title states, I was wondering what style font, what color, and what size font the C&O used to mark their tenders. I bought a B&O auxiliary tender and I would like to change it to C&O. The first picture is the aux. tender now, and the second of the lettering I would like to use. Thanks for all the help!
If this was the old days I would tell you to go to the library and pull out a graphics reference book and start looking. I work in graphics and that font is NOT Times, beyond that I have no clue. You basically have to go into a font library and look. Microsoft Word or other word programs now have great built in font libraries you can look at. However, many railroads paid for their own specific font, so you may never find this exact font available. On a side note, Microscale makes these decals-ready for purchase. For HO scale, #87-76 is the part number. If you still want to look: This is a bold, serif font. All letters are capitals. They use a larger sized font for the lead letter in both words to imitate a "Capital letter". -Mark Williams
Computer Font Information I started this thread about font types a long time ago. I learned more about fonts than I ever can remember, for sure. Having information such as that provided by Mark (cmstpmark) is invaluable in identifying the font using these on line computer websites. I will add that all this old railroad lettering was originally done by free-hand or with a stencil made by the company graphics department. The fonts we use today are created from those originals. I know that in Southern Pacific that there may be an SP font for sale. In the alternative, I use the publicly available Railroad Roman true type font and call that close enough. There may be something analogous for C&O. I would like to see the font type that you choose. It is always good to add that type of thing to your computer font inventory. Note: I like the true type font because my PC computer and the graphics programs can handle that easily.
Don't be so willing to shelve Times New Roman either. teh Chesepeake and Ohio fonts are more on a central line, with the capitalized letters being larger than what should be the lowercase letters, but still evenly centered on a horizontal line. That can be done with Tiems new Roman, if you do it in Paint and use the cutting box tool to selewct and move it straight up a bit
I also use the roman triplex font in AutoCAD, but neither quite replicates Pere Marquette's font, which (not surprisingly) appears to be indentical.
