Finding the Right Font for Signs

Following the publication of my article on making your own signs (Advertising for Station Street, AMRM Issue 334, February 2019), I was asked how I identified the correct fonts to use when making a sign. In this article I will attempt to create a guide for identifying typefaces to help modellers know what peculiarities in typeface design to look for when creating a sign.

For this exercise I have used some petrol signs that are among my collection. I also used an