"Which font do you use for German turret number decals" Topic

Hi,

I've found a good producer of dry transfers and was now going to put together a sheet of turret numbers to be printed out. I've used a couple of online tools to determine a font from a picture and Myriad came up for a handful of pictures of turret numbers and am not completely ok with that. Probably just me.

My question is, which font do you use for German turret number decals?

I think the tools are just guessing, and use Myriad as their default "Humanist Sans-Serif." Frutiger is, of course, post-war, but it's the root of Myraid. See if you like it better: link

I believe Gill Sans is period:
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Futura could be good:
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Thanks for the reply Jeff

Gill Sans is about as classically English as you can get when using a snap serif font.

Take a look at the various cuts of DIN (DIN stands for Deutsches Institut for Normung) or another words a standard German font. It was designed in 1936 for road and railway signage – it looks and feels far more Germanic than Gill.

I used this as the basis to start from for letters and numbers when I designed my 1/285 aircraft decals. What software are you using?

Timmo uk,

I'm using Adobe Illustrator. I have some din fonts but do not like the glyph for 4. This is my ocd coming through. I'll see if there are other din fonts other than the ones I have.

Can you send me a PM with your email and I'll send you an Illustrator file with the numbers 0 – 9 as outlines so you won't need the font. I think I drew a couple of options for number 4. You can always edit them to get exactly what you want.

Just let me know which version of Illustrator you're using so I can save the file correctly.

Timmo uk, I can't send you a pm, so here is my email address

surfing . moose at hot mail . com

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SM,

Thanks will sort over the w/e for you.