"Home-Brewed" 1967 Dodge Window Sticker

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"Dart67"

"Dart67"

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This has been my project for the last couple of days.

Yes, Days. It takes a great deal of time and patience to do this.

I have my ORIGINAL Window Sticker for my blue Dart that I bought new and took delivery on May 3, 1967.
It is in pretty rough shape any more after being folded and un-folded many, many time and kept in the glove box of the car for years and years.

SO, I decided to redo it.

Here is the Original and my "Home-Brewed" "NEW" window sticker that is the result of all my hard work using MS Paint.

Herb

WindowSticker RESIZED.jpg


WindowSticker_NEW RESIZED.jpg
 
Well done! I like the original cuz it is the original, but I understand and you did a great job!
Weathered look on old stuff i like.
 
Nice work!

I did one for my ‘69 GTS the same way using photoshop. It takes dozens of hours to get it right!
 
I'd put the original one in a frame. Its got "patina" . Thrn use your repop in the window at shows.
 
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65Val said:
Here's a bit bigger one for comparison. Right off I see the font is different....

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My slow Internet connection kept your attachment from showing on your 1st post.
But it is now. Sorry...
They look pretty much the same.
Finding the correct fonts to use is/was the biggest problem.

I had to "Re-build" the red fonts at the top left pretty much a pixel at a time.

I looked all around trying to find a font that looked like the old teletype print with no luck so far.

Herb
 
"Dart67" said:
My slow Internet connection kept your attachment from showing on your 1st post.
But it is now. Sorry...
They look pretty much the same.
Finding the correct fonts to use is/was the biggest problem.

I had to "Re-build" the red fonts at the top left pretty much a pixel at a time.

I looked all around trying to find a font that looked like the old teletype print with no luck so far.

Herb
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No worries....your's looks great, and would probably "fool" 99% of car show "lookers". I might have attempted to do what you did if I hadn't found those guys' site (I took the easy way out!)
 
The correct font usually makes or breaks the "correctness look".
Have a look at using the 'OCR-B' font. Might be a close match.

I've doing design and layout work for some 25+ years. Starting from scratch, a layout like this would take about 1/2hr to max 1 hour to recreate as a near perfect copy.
 
BigBlockMopar said:
The correct font usually makes or breaks the "correctness look".
Have a look at using the 'OCR-B' font. Might be a close match.

I've doing design and layout work for some 25+ years. Starting from scratch, a layout like this would take about 1/2hr to max 1 hour to recreate as a near perfect copy.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I just downloaded OcrB Regular Font and gave it a try.

Here is an example of the original font that I am trying to match and the OcrB font.

Any an all help would be appreciated.

Herb

FONT EXAMPLE.jpg
 
The original font looks slightly 'wider'.
Also, make the font appear in a grayish tint, instead of 'perfect' black. Adds some more 'vintage'. :)
 
"Dart67" said:
Thanks for the suggestion. I just downloaded OcrB Regular Font and gave it a try.

Here is an example of the original font that I am trying to match and the OcrB font.

Any an all help would be appreciated.

Herb

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I used that font when I did mine and then converted the text to an image and stretched it slightly wider and it became a nearly perfect match. The tricky part is that each letter requires a different amount of stretch to get it to look best.
 
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