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Is ANYONE out there producing relatively interesting flex letters for track signage using Roman fonts or other faces? Need letters in the 3" to 6" range, and have been horribly depressed by the uniformity of gothic offerings online.
-------------------- w. david kubiak Big Medicine PO Box 13, Kennebunkport, ME 04046 kubiak@nancho.net Posts: 2 | From: kennebunkport, maine | Registered: Oct 2002
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wheres all these "MANIACS" comin from????? only one that used to come here was my cousin john noviki(we both married maine women, so we must be related)....hehehehe hey-yup! as for the letters only GEMINI AND SCOTT PLASTICS are the only one i know of.
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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David, there are the flat letters and the raised ones. You can make your own flat letters to get away from simple block styles. For store-bought letters, the other vendor is Wagner Zip-Change http://www.wagnerzip.com/newsite/menu.asp
Hope this helps Vic G
-------------------- Victor Georgiou Danville, CA , USA Posts: 1746 | From: Danville, CA , USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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Thanks guys - I managed to contact somebody in the Gemini backroom and it turns out they do have a few sets left of one old discontinued serif font called Kruse or something.
Much appreciated your advice, but the other firms noted had all abandoned everything but the helvetica/gothic lowest common denom.
Anyway our problem is solved, but the mystery remains - why is the most boring font not only a dominant standard but the only bleeding choice in this world. You'd think a market niche would be gaping for somebody with an ounce of graphic imagination these days.
gratias, david k-
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Helvetica might be the most boring because you see it most often! This letter style was produced for the billboard companies in order to be readable for the longest time,at the greastest distance,while traveling at speeds up 60mph. I belive the idea why the U.S. Government,Architects,Printers,and "Flex" are produced this way... is stated above. SIGNS AIN'T ART Hope this helps
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