WIP: Killer Canary

[anadc4]

FREE AIRCRAFT FONTS - Download - Army, Navy, Air Force, Aircraft Typefaces

[anadc4]

Further to my rushed comment above, the link to Military Type Fonts is the one to follow. The pack consists of six fonts including Amarillo and what I think is actually Long Beach, but is marked as USAFF CODE. Compare this font with the demo version of Long Beach from TLai Enterprises | LongBeachUSN Info and you will see what I mean. I found the kerning in the "USAFF CODE" ttf is awful and will need some adjusting - kerning is the space between letters for those unfamiliar with printing terms. The Long Beach demo font from TLai Enterprises is missing the vowels A, E, I, O, U and the #1 but there might be enough left for codes and squadron numbers.

One of the great mysteries is how TLai Enterprises seems to "own" Long Beach. Surely a font used by the USN and decal makers for decades is in the public domain. Sure, you can't steal TLai's drawing but TLai never designed the font. The USN did that. So surely a font maker can create his own version of the USN font and identify it as such without incurring the wrath of TLai Enterprises. There are plenty of other fonts out there which duplicate commercial fonts, most famously Arial, which is efectively identical to Helvetica.

[BLOWHARD]

http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/foru...arillousaf-64/

[anadc4]

Thanks, but I knew Amarillo was available here. The point of my post was Long Beach, which isn't available anywhere as freeware. But using USAFF CODE from the site I linked to will give profile artists a font that is almost identical to Long Beach. Saves a lot of anguish because the USN always had plenty to say on its planes. The C-47 was among the first profiles I did. The C-54 is more recent. Both were planes I saw when I was a kid.

[Jesters-Ink]

They are nice anadc4, they would look great at full count

[GiantFlyingRobots]

Blowhard, I think you should have used this emoticon.

I should have looked there , before asking.

[anadc4]

They aren't as big a file as most artists here. The C-47 is 2000px, the DC-4 2500px wide. Resolution is 72px an inch. They are fine printed on A4, which is the limit of my printer.

[Jesters-Ink]

They have given me another itch though

[GrubbyFingers]

Eewww!

[anadc4]

They have given me another itch though

Not sure what you are saying but if it is a sudden urge to do a transport plane, scratch it. The variety of colour schemes on planes such as a C-47 is mind boggling. When you think that maybe 95% of the world's air arms used C-47s at some stage the scope for interesting colour schemes is almost boundless.

David