1940's Fonts

[Barmaid]

I'm helping someone with a short booklet about the War. I've been tasked with putting it into pamphlet form. I'd quite like to use the type of font that might have been used in the 1940s. Does anyone have any ideas as to the font name and where I might acquire the character set, please?

TIA

[rockyracoon]

This might help

http://www.fontspace.com/category/1940s

[Frank97]

Some more here
http://www.1001fonts.com/1940s-fonts.html

[Barmaid]

Ohhhh, excellent, thanks both.

That should keep me busy for the rest of the day.

[society]

You always seem to be helping or doing something for someone else. Where do you find time for yourself? Do you ever have 'me' time? :)

[Grimaldi]

I found this on another forum - happy hunting!

It's very close to "Johnston" (a.k.a. "Underground" from the London Underground), Gill Sans or even Avenir. The only difference is the R's. It's such an old poster that it's likely there is no official/digital version of this exact typeface.

[jno]

there wasn't a whole lot of printing done in the 1940s, because of paper shortages, so there's no particular "look". Typically, texts were just in Times Roman or a simple sans font (not sure what the standard one was), though headlines and covers got a bit fancier - have a look at some of these (sorry, the fonts arent' actually named)

https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&site=imghp&;tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1748&bih=910&q=1940s+pamphlet&oq=1940s+pamphlet&gs_l=img.3...1818.5546.0.6187.14.9.0.5.0.0.113.830.5j4.9.0....0...1ac.1.27.img..6.8.754.iT3Q8pPXYkY#imgdii=_

The reason I say this is because tbh none of the fonts people have linked to really seem to say 40s, though someone may have invented them then. To look really 40s, think austerity.

[FredPuli43]

I have, in front of me, some 1940s London Palladium programmes. You might expect them to be in some classy, expensive font, seeing as they were for cheering people about lavish entertainment. Well, they ain't. The mood, realistic and practical, of the times, is set by an ad on the back: "Hungaria, the SAFE restaurant; bomb-proof; splinter-proof; blast-proof" [Enjoy you meal!]

The font used is sans serif, rather Eric Gill style, as used in Art Deco of the 30s, very spare. The only exception is in " Schweppes" used in the heading of that company's ad, no doubt because that was copyright artwork for the brand

[jno]

bomb-proof was important

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1264532/The-blitz-70-years-Carnage-Caf-Paris.html

[Frank97]

I think you're both right, the ones on my link look more American to me.

[FredPuli43]

society, the reason why Barmaid always has time is that she is a very nice and generous person who will go out of her way to help anybody [Pause for her to give a maidenly blush]

And she is also a Chancery barrister. In this modern age, they can practise from their vast East Anglian estates, via the internet, surrounded by their chickens and other livestock. They may occasionally defend some alleged criminal, but only because their big city firms send the brief (usually not legal aid) to Chancery chambers because they never use anything else. And Barmaid has a trained tame partner (a work in hand) too ! We poor common lawyers live on scraps and never know where our next penny is coming from [see the Press any day when the Bar Council is complaining about Legal Aid]

[Pause for Barmaid to say 'cobblers 'but in law Latin. Retreats wearing tin hat]

[DJHawkes]

[IMG]http://i41.tinypic.com/24brldy.jpg[/IMG]

[DJHawkes]

http://i41.tinypic.com/24brldy.jpg

this is an ad from 1948

[Barmaid]

Thank you all. Gives me something to tinker with.

The booklet is a combination of extracts from other books interpolated with my grandfather's memories of the war. My mother has written it - and having done some serious research has managed to establish where he was for just about every day. I'm in charge of formatting and printing so that we have a copy for him before we set off on our "Italian Campaign" later this month.

Society, no, I don't have any time for myself at present. I normally manage to grab a few minutes in the morning to have a quiet cup of coffee then a shower and then its full on all day. Even when I am cooking supper, I normally have a phone tucked under my chin either catching up with family and friends or planning weddings, funerals and bar mitzvahs.

Fred, how the other half live eh? I would like to say that my tardiness in responding is due to having to take delivery of my daily Fortnum's hamper, but actually I had to nip out to the Feed Merchants to get some chicken food. Glamorous me. IN tradition with the Bar I did instruct my driver to call in at the wine bar on the way back!!!! (OK, we said sod it, lets go to the pub). Hic.........

[FredPuli43]

BM , I always said the Bar worked for chicken feed, whatever branch of it it was. You prove it.

Read my first paragraph [supra] as the judgment and the rest as obiter dicta of the sort you get from some dyspeptic bookend in the Court of Appeal. He'll be the one you got overruled the last time you appeared in front of him.

[Peter Pedant]

Any sans-cerif font - think 'underground' rather than 'Daily Telegraph'

remember you want to invoke the idea of the forties
and not reproduce the actual docs

(Beeb producers are v aware that Jane Austen would not have lived in a house wh was Georgian with 1770-1800 furniture but that they would have made do and mended (esp within the Church) but that does not mean the production values do not predicate Georgian houses and design and nothing else.)

[Peter Pedant]

Dee jays oven - was the first one that my brother used as a student
given to him as a hand me down 1968

weighed a ton and took about an afternoon to warm up