Post by Stewart on Oct 19, 2023 5:30:02 GMT -5
Up to now I have got my number plates from allscalediorama on eBay but they are not decals but stickers which don’t work well on bonnets so I’ve been looking into making my own. Jerry was a great help and sent me a word document that he uses. Unfortunately it didn’t work because I didn’t have that font on my computer but that is now sorted as shown below.
In fact I found it better to use Excel as this screenshot shows
The first thing I had to do was install the font on my desktop (haven’t been able to do it on iPad yet). I googled the name of the font that I got from Jerry’s document “Charles Wright 1935”. That took me to this website where I entered the same font name, you might find other suppliers. This was for free. Other Charles Wright fonts are available for more modern eras.
en.maisfontes.com/charles-wright-1935.font
Then in Excel I selected the font and set the text height at 8. Don’t select Bold, the font is already configured for stroke width.
Row height is 10, column width 7. Width is generous but is easily trimmed to suit, not so easy to trim the height so this is best adjusted in excel for individual cases.
I centred the text vertically and horizontally and typed in the Reg number of the Lotus Components van that I’m working on.
Select black for the fill colour and white for the text.
Adjacent cells can be set up using cut and paste and Paste Format to requirements, a few spares come in handy.
Then print off as usual.
Any questions please PM me.
In fact I found it better to use Excel as this screenshot shows
The first thing I had to do was install the font on my desktop (haven’t been able to do it on iPad yet). I googled the name of the font that I got from Jerry’s document “Charles Wright 1935”. That took me to this website where I entered the same font name, you might find other suppliers. This was for free. Other Charles Wright fonts are available for more modern eras.
en.maisfontes.com/charles-wright-1935.font
Then in Excel I selected the font and set the text height at 8. Don’t select Bold, the font is already configured for stroke width.
Row height is 10, column width 7. Width is generous but is easily trimmed to suit, not so easy to trim the height so this is best adjusted in excel for individual cases.
I centred the text vertically and horizontally and typed in the Reg number of the Lotus Components van that I’m working on.
Select black for the fill colour and white for the text.
Adjacent cells can be set up using cut and paste and Paste Format to requirements, a few spares come in handy.
Then print off as usual.
Any questions please PM me.
