Font for CIE steam locomotive numerals

[jhb171achill]

Thanks to Roderick Bruce for this, it might be useful to those modelling CIE steam.

[Glenderg]

This extends further @jhb171achill, I've seen this oddball font later on, and I suspect it was done by some chap in a drawing office, as it makes no "design" sense.

The central "O" in the 6 should be an ellipse, rather than a circle, and similarly with the 9. The central extension on the "3" should be straight, not curved, and the "2" is wild wrong. From a font design POV, , it's rubbish, but that's why we don't use a font off the web - all our stuff has custom letters and numbers, like the above. CIE are going to keep me busy til I get into a pine box... 

Very grateful for this. 

Richie. 

[Broithe]

34 minutes ago, Glenderg said:

This extends further @jhb171achill, I've seen this oddball font later on, and I suspect it was done by some chap in a drawing office, as it makes no "design" sense.

The central "O" in the 6 should be an ellipse, rather than a circle, and similarly with the 9. The central extension on the "3" should be straight, not curved, and the "2" is wild wrong. From a font design POV, , it's rubbish, but that's why we don't use a font off the web - all our stuff has custom letters and numbers, like the above. CIE are going to keep me busy til I get into a pine box... 

Very grateful for this. 

Richie. 

On a lot of the motorway signs near me, the 8s are often upside down, as (not very clearly) seen here - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.6981227,-2.1048587,3a,17.8y,358.6h,90.68t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1smqB2k9PyYAA5hg158CqrJQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 - with the 'big' part at the top - this prompted a local musician friend to pen a song about this one, his favourite sign, which meant that he was nearly back home again after yet another gig.
 

 

[jhb171achill]

I hear ya, Glenderg!

(Glad it was long after jhb171Senior's time in the Inchicore Drawing Office! )

[DiveController]

Probably a lot of other things hanging around on CIE steam too ...

[heirflick]

Always wondered what went on here with Dunluse Castle.........

[Broithe]

4 hours ago, heirflick said:

Always wondered what went on here with Dunluse Castle.........

Run out of 7s, found a spare 2...?

[heirflick]

14 hours ago, Broithe said:

Run out of 7s, found a spare 2...?

seems to be the case!

 

[WRENNEIRE]

Seemed to be very common with NCC signage

 

[StevieB]

So 7 is not quite a 2 upside down.

Stephen

[NIR]

Looks ancestral to the 'wild west wanted poster' white on maroon early NIR typeface somehow, a font family known as French Clarendon apparently (those 7s seem to appear in French cursive handwriting).

Anyone any idea what the NCC, UTA, NIR typefaces actually were?

Edited August 19, 2019 by NIR

[jhb171achill]

On 8/18/2019 at 12:59 AM, DiveController said:

Probably a lot of other things hanging around on CIE steam too ...

Now THAT is something I’d love to have - 532 was a D16 4.4.0 “Achill Bogie”!

And still in GSR grey!

[WRENNEIRE]

One of my favourites, J15