I'd like to make decals for some patched covered hoppers lettered for MWCX, but I'm stumped on them.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/50090140@N08/5768153270/in/photostream
I've combed through the fonts I have and asked a couple fellow designers. No one can put a finger on it, but everyone agrees it looks familiar. Any ideas?
Sort of looks like Futura Bold but italicized.
Modeling whatever I can make out of that stash of kits that takes up half my apartment's spare bedroom.
I'd thought Futura Bold too, but the C is different.
The numbers are tricky because so few people can identify a font by its numbers. One of my friends got back to me that the letters and numbers are different fonts (maybe). That 6 is from Eras Demi, but Eras Demi's W and C don't match what's in that picture.
Rather complicated for a leasing company's reporting marks, instead of using railroad or highway gothic.
In the event that anyone ever comes looking for it, a friend of mine figured it out last night. It's called Crillee. I showed her another picture and she caught that there were odd little serifs that she hadn't noticed the first time.
You can see it close up here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/50090140@N08/5768153570/in/photostream/
My question is: Is this a fake? Looks like it to me. How can they make the 4 without a stencil? There should be a section where you can't paint so that the stencil covers the hole in the middle of the 4.
A lot of real railcars are lettered the same way we do it: decals.
Big, weather resistant, self adhesive decals, but decals all the same.