[WIP] British Air Services Font

[fs10inator]

Looking at this font, I was so interested in it, I tried to find matches for it online. Unfortunately, what I got was nothing short of... well, nothing. So instead, I took from Wikipedia the high-res versions of the logos of Northeast and Cambrian and made different glyphs using the ones already in the logo as a reference.

The "scottish airways" and "cambrian air holidays" titles led me to creating 2 different versions of the font BAS airlines used, since the former was used above the cheatline and the tail of the small Y never hanged below the baseline, while the tails of the small G and Y in, say, "Airways Engineering" did.

This font is currently a work in progress and is subject to the following changes coming later, such as:
-character modification*
-addition of numbers
-addition of punctuation marks
-kerning*

*Change that is likely to happen



Changes done so far:
-Upper tail of the "f" is extended slightly.
-Period and comma added.
-Change to the letter Y.



Well, 3/4 of them are; the second one is from a BAS timetable cover.

Before you use this font, it's worth knowing that there are no uppercase letters, so use it with Caps Lock off.
Download link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/795geom71w2pm ... nFonts.rar

[clavel9]

Fantastic!

[Airspeed]

Not that I'm likely to use them myself, but top marks for creating them.
Good Work!

Now you'll have to teach us all how to do it; as Joe says: "That's the rules."

[TobyV]

Amazing timing. I just spent a Sunday afternoon the other weekend drawing the northeast titles for one of the guys restoring G-ARPO (which is being painted into northeast colours since it is at the Northeast Air Museum and there's nothing preserved in those colours, not because it ever flew like that). I wonder how your and my work compare?



Previously I had looked at the SVGs on wikipedia, which I guess were created from scans of printed materials like timetables, but they looked a bit heavier (like a bold version) that the titles on the fuselages appear in old photos, so I created mine by trying to scale off the photos.

[fs10inator]

I used FontForge's Change Weight dialogue to remove some weight from all the characters at once.

[fs10inator]

By the way, this: