Printable dial cards

[dsk]

One more:

[AE_Collector]

Very Cute d_s_k!

How about a TCI version as well!

Terry

[dsk]

Very Cute d_s_k!

How about a TCI version as well!

Terry

TCI has a little more colors, making it a little harder to get it right, This could be a start?

dsk

[teka-bb]

The TCI Library contains a 'Printable Docs' section  which contains a few dial cards.

http://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=383&Itemid=2

If it's OK with DSK I will ad his to the TCI Library. Others are also welcome to send their dial cards etc.

[dsk]

Yes, please feel free to use them as you want, and so for these:

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v480/dsk/Telephone/labels%20and%20signs/ (dead link 10-5-21)

Many of them are just for fun, some to look like the original.

dsk

[teka-bb]

Thanks dsk

[Dan/Panther]

The second Black and White version speaks to me. It said Hello...

D/P

[N8N]

The TCI Library contains a 'Printable Docs' section  which contains a few dial cards.

http://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=383&Itemid=2

If it's OK with DSK I will ad his to the TCI Library. Others are also welcome to send their dial cards etc.

Cool!  I have one that I need to scan, however the "printable" ones that you link are some of the nicest files I've seen, I think I will start over with one of those.  I was going to try to do something in AutoCAD but I might just not bother since those seem nice enough.

thanks for the pointer!

[AE_Collector]

Fitting that all of the Dial Cards at that link are contributions from CRPF members.

Terry

[N8N]

Here's my attempts at making these looks right...  "HERNDON" is in 90 pixel high Cantarell Bold (small caps are 45 px) the large caps have letter spacing at -9 pixels (using GIMP) then the text for the first card I did is in a font called "Veteran Typewriter" second is "Old Rubber Stamp" then the third is "Mailart Rubberstamp" all free fonts from fontriver.com.  My only gripe is that both the rubber stamp fonts seem to be proportionally spaced meaning that if you are trying to replicate a stamping machine where you manually set the type it is OK but if the stamp is one like an old date stamp where you have rubber rings with numbers and symbols on them then it should be monospaced.  Anyone know which was more common back in the day?

For both the "typewriter" and "rubber stamp" I greyed up the color a little bit for a hint of contrast.



If anyone wants a GIMP or Photoshop file of this just let me know.

[Bill]

Nate -

How on earth did you ever wade through fontriver.com to find the fonts you wanted? There are 800 fonts whose name begins with "A" alone! That's gotta be 20,000 fonts total - and they are presented 10 at a time!

Bill

[N8N]

Nate -

How on earth did you ever wade through fontriver.com to find the fonts you wanted? There are 800 fonts whose name begins with "A" alone! That's gotta be 20,000 fonts total - and they are presented 10 at a time!

Bill

I was just looking at the fonts that came up in a search with "stamp" or "typewriter" as a keyword...  there's no way I could possibly look at every font that they have!  (which means that there are likely more suitable ones out there, but I think those cards are acceptable.)

BTW does anyone know how to insert text at an angle in the GIMP?  I was thinking of making the station code text off horizontal by a small amount (half a degree or so, nothing too noticeable) and slightly off center for a more authentic look.  The second is easy, the first I'm not sure how to do.

[teka-bb]

Can't you put every digit on it's own layer and move and/or tilt each digit as much as you want?
I know that's more work but I 'don't know another way. This is how I would do it in photo shop.
That way you can also 'mono space' the characters like in a real stamp.

[N8N]

I can't figure out how to tilt them at all, is the problem, because I'm not really fluent with photo/graphics editing in general or the GIMP in particular.

[old_stuff_hound]

I can't figure out how to tilt them at all, is the problem, because I'm not really fluent with photo/graphics editing in general or the GIMP in particular.

It's been a while since I did mine, but I did just as you're suggesting -- very slightly off angle, and I moved the numbers very slightly so that they're not on the same baseline (i.e. some are raised very slightly relative to the others. I didn't do it in Gimp, though. I used Open Office. Here's a "phantom" dial card I made: