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 Post subject: Trying to match a font on an award document
PostPosted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 7:02 am 
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Has anyone ever come across the font used in this (and a few other award docs) certificate?


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 Post subject: Re: Trying to match a font on an award document
PostPosted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 3:33 pm 
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in the image, crop one of the words out and you can upload it to http://www.whatthefont.com that tries to pattern match the font.

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 Post subject: Re: Trying to match a font on an award document
PostPosted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 2:32 am 
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Great site. Thanks!!


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 Post subject: Re: Trying to match a font on an award document
PostPosted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:26 am 
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Unfortunately, no real matches for that font, or the other one I'm hunting for. Alas, the hunt continues...


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 Post subject: Re: Trying to match a font on an award document
PostPosted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:00 pm 
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i have tried looking for that one as well and can not find it

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 Post subject: Re: Trying to match a font on an award document
PostPosted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 7:21 pm 
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Hi all,

I've run into the same problem and even though it takes a little longer I make the missing font letters. I don't know what software you use to recreate your documents, but I manually recreate some of the lettering/images using Illustrator to get a nice crisp lettering.

Jeff

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 Post subject: Re: Trying to match a font on an award document
PostPosted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 8:54 pm 
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I use Photoshop. Sometimes, if I can get a good enough scan of a document, I can just clean it up and turn it into a PDF. That's generally the exception though. Most of the time though I just scale an original appropriately and then type over it via layers.

I might just end up trying to figure out how to create a font.


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 Post subject: Re: Trying to match a font on an award document
PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 4:39 pm 
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I use the Crappy wehrmacht font.

-> http://www.wiking.org/labels/labels.htm

here you can download it

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 Post subject: Re: Trying to match a font on an award document
PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:18 pm 
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I'm looking for the font that the documents themselves use, not the typewriter font. I've got a 1939 vintage typewriter that I can use on the documents once they're printed.

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 Post subject: Re: Trying to match a font on an award document
PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:19 pm 
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or you mean something like this as a blanko award dokument:

[URL=http://imageshack.us]Image

but this ofcourse not so because you would be dead

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 Post subject: Re: Trying to match a font on an award document
PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:53 pm 
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Precisely that! Those two fonts seem to be used quite often in Third Reich award documents, and I haven't been able to find anything that is really all that close.


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 Post subject: Re: Trying to match a font on an award document
PostPosted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:45 am 
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i just bought the blanko award dokuments they range from 6 till 14 euro/ dokument

and i did sent them a while ago to panzergrenadiernet so they could make it a downloadable dokument but i don't see that they did something with it or i didn't got any message :?: :?: :?:


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