U.S. Army Air Forces/Air Corps seat cushions or Font identification

Ad: This forum contains affiliate links to products on Amazon and eBay. More information in Terms and rules

VintageIron

Airman
42
14
Aug 10, 2020
Hello-
Thanks for taking time to read this. I'm looking for either the original seat cushions, or if someone can identify the font used so I can replicate the seat cushions as in the pictures attached.

Thank you!
 

Attachments

  • army-air-force-corps-pi.jpg
    army-air-force-corps-pi.jpg
    21.7 KB · Views: 39
  • U.S.Air Corps font.jpg
    U.S.Air Corps font.jpg
    28.6 KB · Views: 41
Bodoni looks like a good match to part of the writing. The writing on the seat bottom is a sans-serif style. A good fit for it would be something like Arial or Helvetica. Looking at an uppercase alphabet and numbers in Arial and Helvetica, the only differences I easily spot are in the representations of G and 2, and possibly the width of some of the characters. So pick the most convient.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890 (Arial)
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890 (Helvetica)
 
Hello and thank you for your reply. Agreed on Bodoni, I went with Basic Block Bold for the seat bottom wording, CraftCuts did the adhesive stencils, now I need to decide what media/method I want to use, a non water solvent black ink using a brayer, or black paint suitable for use on vinyl. Any suggestions?
 

Users who are viewing this thread

Back