Re: Old Northeast Fonts

[route17fan]

I have scoured the forum to make sure this is not a repeat thread - if I overlooked it, please forgive me. Are there any font creators out there? And if so, would anyone be interested in creating (or recreating) a LeHay font for recreational use? I lived in the Albany NY area for about 7 years and loved the old "New England" font but was disappointed to learn that it was on the internet many years ago but has not been on since.

I was just curious to see what reaction would be to those within the road enthusiast community to have one created. For that matter, a classic NY font would be appreciated as well. I would also say that I personally would pay to have said fonts available.

[agentsteel53]

the old "New England" font

there are several variants of this.  Maine indeed used LeHay, and I believe that is around and available.  Massachusetts used their own homebrew, and I've never gotten around to making a font out of it - I just use the individual glyphs as vectors whenever I need one, which honestly isn't all that often. 

[froggie]

I'm admittedly not a font person, but what was the old font that Vermont used?  The old 1948-spec?  There's still a few examples floating around, especially on the town roads (we have one example here in Greensboro).

[Pete from Boston]

Like this?

[route17fan]

Yes indeed - that would be it!

[PHLBOS]

Like this?

For the longest time (70s through 80s), that particular shield used to face eastbound traffic even though it's located along the westbound side.

IIRC, that shield's still there today.

Back to the topic at hand: while the 1 and the 9 in that example could pass for Clearview; the 2, not so much.  The bottom part of a Clearview 2 is more sharper angular and less curvy.

[Pete from Boston]

IIRC, that shield's still there today.

I should hope so. I took that picture on Friday, and removed at the location information from Flickr.

[PHLBOS]

I should hope so. I took that picture on Friday,

Ok.

and removed at the location information from Flickr.

?????  I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.

[Pete from Boston]

I should hope so. I took that picture on Friday,

Ok.

and removed at the location information from Flickr.

?????  I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.

I was advised in other threads not to post specific locations of rare old signs because poachers abound online. 

[froggie]

I was advised in other threads not to post specific locations of rare old signs because poachers abound online.

Paranoia, IMO...

[Pete from Boston]

I was advised in other threads not to post specific locations of rare old signs because poachers abound online.

Paranoia, IMO...

Eh, I don't care.  If nothing else it keeps a little mystery.  The internet is killing most of that off.  I'm sure all the info is already online anyway.