Classic British Flight Sim

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

Fantastic!

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."

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.

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

By the way, this: