14 May
2016
14 May
'16
12:02 a.m.
I wrote:
In the absence of any details, I'll use some
variant of Hevetica.
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:26 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
That is probably a great start. The art from the
Popular Science
article should be a good guide.
I can't find a decent scan of the cover of that issue.
Here's a decent photo of a repro...
http://www.cosmacelf.com/_Media/elf3_big_med_hr.jpeg
That's Bill Buzbee's ELF. He did a nice job.
I've studied it a bit more. The "R" in Helvetica isn't a good match,
and I don't like it. Adelle Sans Bold and District Std. Demi look
like better matches, but I don't want to spend that much money. I
think I'll go with Liberation Sans Bold and/or Liberation Sans Narrow
Bold. They look close enough, other than having a horizontal base bar
for the "1", and I think I can live with that.
