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Fritz Klinke

April 06, 2008 11:51PM

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It's clearly not P.T. Barnum, a type face name that was originally a French Clarendon in the 1880s. The D&S lettering is a bogus design with no historic relationship to any prior D&RG lettering styles that I am aware of, and the first usage was when the cars acquired the "Grande" gold back in the 50s and the traditional railroad Roman as modified by the D&RGW was dropped in favor of someone's idea of "old timey" lettering. Much as I admire what has happened with my home railroad, I can't abide by the lettering as continued year after year.

Fritz

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D&S Font?	WRRRJosh	April 06, 2008 05:25PM
Re: D&S Font?	geode	April 06, 2008 06:11PM
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Re: D&S Font?	WilliamDiehl	April 06, 2008 10:34PM
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Re: D&S Font?	Brian Norden	April 06, 2008 11:46PM
Re: D&S Font?	Fritz Klinke	April 06, 2008 11:51PM
Re: D&S Font?	geode	April 07, 2008 04:01AM
Re: D&S Font?	John Craft	April 07, 2008 05:50AM
Re: D&S Font?	dan	April 07, 2008 06:49AM
Re: D&S Font?	WRRRJosh	April 07, 2008 06:02PM
Re: D&S Font?	Todd Hackett	April 07, 2008 06:05PM
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