Ascension overprint

Anyone recognise the font in the Ascension overprint of St Helena 1922?

Just curious and it makes the text on the page look better.

tt

Perhaps open MSWord, then Format / Fonts,
and scroll through the options.

"Arial" or "Helmet" looks fairly close.

HTH



"A.J Todd" wrote in message
...
Anyone recognise the font in the Ascension overprint of St Helena 1922?

Just curious and it makes the text on the page look better.

tt

I meant to add also,
I have seen albums where the owner has Xeroxed the Catalogue page,
and cut out the example overprint, (or postmark, or watermark)
and it can look rather smart,
that may be another option for you.


Perhaps open MSWord, then Format / Fonts,
and scroll through the options.

"Arial" or "Helmet" looks fairly close.

HTH



"A.J Todd" wrote in message
...
Anyone recognise the font in the Ascension overprint of St Helena 1922?

Just curious and it makes the text on the page look better.

tt

A.J Todd wrote:
Anyone recognise the font in the Ascension overprint of St Helena 1922?

Just curious and it makes the text on the page look better.


Try Arial Black font, Bold, 10 point size, using all caps,.
It is available in MS Word, WordPad or NotePad.

Blair

Who is kidding whom???

In those days there was no Microsoft, no Arial

groetjes, Rein

Op Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:29:34 +0200 schreef Blair (TC)
:

A.J Todd wrote:
Anyone recognise the font in the Ascension overprint of St Helena 1922?

Just curious and it makes the text on the page look better.


Try Arial Black font, Bold, 10 point size, using all caps,.
It is available in MS Word, WordPad or NotePad.

Blair




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On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:24:32 +0200, Rein wrote:

Who is kidding whom???

In those days there was no Microsoft, no Arial

groetjes, Rein

Op Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:29:34 +0200 schreef Blair (TC)
:

A.J Todd wrote:
Anyone recognise the font in the Ascension overprint of St Helena 1922?

Just curious and it makes the text on the page look better.


Try Arial Black font, Bold, 10 point size, using all caps,.
It is available in MS Word, WordPad or NotePad.

Arial is a Monotype version of Helvetica which was itself roughly based on
Akzidenz Grotesk.

Helvetica is also too young for a 1922 stamp so it must have been an earlier
sans-serif style such as the one mentioned above.

I was proposing Arial Black font for documenting the
series (ie using a font close to that on the stamp).

Arial appears to be a loose adaptation of Monotype's
venerable Grotesque series, redrawn to match the
proportions and weight of Helvetica.

At a glance, it looks like Helvetica, but up close it's
different in dozens of seemingly arbitrary ways.
But. because it matched Helvetica's proportions, it
was possible to automatically substitute Arial when
Helvetica was specified in a document printed on a
PostScript clone output device.

Grotesque font dates from the 1910's and is probably
the font used on the Ascension overprint.
http://cjoint.com/data/knsE7fvjfl.htm

Finding Grotesque font on a computer that you are
using to document your stamps may be more difficult.

Blair

Just you try and find Helmet.....!

Sod it, sounds like Arial will do, I'll just not look too closely.

Be interesting to know the history of who decided where and why though?

tt

"Blair (TC)" wrote in message
oups.com...

I was proposing Arial Black font for documenting the
series (ie using a font close to that on the stamp).

Arial appears to be a loose adaptation of Monotype's
venerable Grotesque series, redrawn to match the
proportions and weight of Helvetica.

At a glance, it looks like Helvetica, but up close it's
different in dozens of seemingly arbitrary ways.
But. because it matched Helvetica's proportions, it
was possible to automatically substitute Arial when
Helvetica was specified in a document printed on a
PostScript clone output device.

Grotesque font dates from the 1910's and is probably
the font used on the Ascension overprint.
http://cjoint.com/data/knsE7fvjfl.htm

Finding Grotesque font on a computer that you are
using to document your stamps may be more difficult.

Blair

It is actually easier than I have initially thought. See for example (I hope
that it is the right one):

http://www.paratype.com/astore/fonts...-Grotesque.htm
http://www.fonts.com/FindFonts/detai...A7JS1RID 2DCS

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Helmet is in MSword.
If you find a font that suits you, you can expand the spacing to suit
your example if the font is not exactly as on the item
eg:
http://cjoint.com/data/kog2R6c3TD.htm



"A.J Todd" wrote in message
...
Just you try and find Helmet.....!

Sod it, sounds like Arial will do, I'll just not look too closely.

Be interesting to know the history of who decided where and why though?

tt