Re: Vintage Circuit-Diagram Lettering!
Hi !
I've now gathered together all the necessary stencils and a font creator package to encode the character glyphs into a true TTF file that any drawing, cad, circuit or word–processor tool can use – the first reproduction font will be the sloping P.W. one!
Believe me, it's a lot harder and longer task than first appears, you need a good scanner or camera and a vector drawing tool capable of bezier manipulation, then there's "kerning" to get right – obviously kerning was second nature to a skilled draughtsman.
Don't forget, a lot of British circuit symbols were themselves stencilled – the BBC books on Television & Video engineering used Uno "BB4" and "BB5" stencils in their production.
Anyway the lettering is coming and the files will be on here as soon as I complete them satisfactorily!
Chris Williams
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