Getting artwork made into vynl transfers

[Judders]

I am going to have to change the name of the boat and quite fancy mocking up some nice atwork for the transom. Does anyone know of a firm who might be able to transfer a JPeg file (or some such) to a vynl transfer?

 

[BrendanS]

any local signwriter should be able to do that

 

[VicS]

Several advertise in PBO

 

[lenseman]

Talking of sign-writing and artwork, does anyone know anything about styles of fonts?

I am trying to find the name of the font that has 'black' letters with chamfered corners.

The font is usually 'raised' such that it seems to cast a shadow (drop-shadow) which is always 'white' in colour, and to the right and slightly below the black letter.

I seem to think it was once used for US Navy craft but an extensive search (google) of such ships doesn't come up with anything?

Can anyone name the font or tell me where I can see it on display please? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

TIA

 

[Alan1]

I've used www.funkymonkey.co.uk and have been very happy with their work.

 

[dnickj]

try these peeps - i had good service from them http://www.funkymonkeyboatnames.com/product_info.php

 

[BrendanS]

Have you tried going through all the fonts in Word, and seeing which is closest. Once you know which 'family' the font is in, it will be much easier to identify.

Or by answering a series of questions on this site, it will narrow down or identify the font
http://www.identifont.com/identify.html

 

[srp]

Try http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
Upload a jpg (a screenshot or a scanned image will do) - there are instructions on the web page about size, resolution etc.- and it will search through it's database.

 

[BobE]

Blissford Signs (Near Fordingbridge) Will, I'm sure, be able to do it for you....
Blokes name is Peter Sheriff...
Sorry phone number escapes me but can pm it to you if you wish...( Bournemouth phone book)
Cheers Bob E...

 

[savageseadog]

Drop shadows are usually generated by the graphics program.
there is a neat program called fontmatcher which is a free download which can match a jpeg image of a font to ones loaded on your computer.

 

[nigelhudson]

Try SAC Graphics

 

[BAtoo]

f you use OpenOffice Writer it shows each font on the choice menu as it will appear...unlike Word.......

then you can save it as a Jpeg & send it/take wherever

 

[Seagreen]

From memory I think the font you might be after is called "machine", or it was on Macs, don't know the wintel version. Drop shadow made by the software.

 

[lenseman]

Thank you everyone for your help but I think Seagreen was closest with his suggestion of 'ITC Machine' font even though I still have been unable to find any downloads or images of this font without having to pay. Usually there is a freeware download site.

Since looking, I did find some other person looking for similar but in numbers only:

http://www.abstractfonts.com/forum/thread/33444/14352#post14352

All I have to do is to find some images of the letters (uppercase), might even have been used on SAR helicopters?

Thank you all once again.

 

[Lakesailor]

As the others said any local sign maker. The "Signman" in Kendal did mine for Slippy.
Just tell him it's for a boat and they'll do it on vehicle vinyl which has a low-tack carrier backing which just peels of when you've positioned the name. You can use the edge of the backing to align the name.