I got an e-mail from Bill Gill awhile back and thought I would share his comments with you. "Back on June 30th you posted a photo of an old billboard you were interested in using as an inspiration for an old
sign. That billboard isn't actually all that old. The lettering font
was designed in the early to mid 1950s, so that particular billboard
would be brand new for your time period. So use the weathering for
inspiration, but not the fonts." That is good advice...I was not sure how far back that font's heritage was...now I do.
Bill continues with "I
like old hand painted signs and did a workshop at Collinsville called
Letterbashing which was an update of an article I had in RMC back in
October 2010. It describes various ways to take computer fonts and make
them look a lot more like hand painted lettering made for their
particular time & place. The results can be quite noticeable or very
subtle, but straight type fonts almost never look like hand lettered
signs." You might want to check out RMC...George Dutka
Here's one of Bill's example from his Collinsville clinic:
Letterbashed version of same sign.
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