Font file “DHFREIGHT.

TTF” Microsoft Windows True Type

font

1 BACKGROUND

1.1 DHFREIGHT Lettering font

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A FREE FONT. IT CANNOT BE SOLD.

This font was created from web picture archives of Delaware & Hudson Boxcars.

2 USAGE

2.1 Installation
The file is distributed as part of a ZIP file that includes this document as well
as the font itself and other related documentation.

The files need to be UNZIPPED from the distribution file into a temporary
work area, like C:\TEMP. (I’ll assume that you used c:\temp from here on…)

Now you can install the font from the windows CONTROL PANEL. Your
system may be different, but in many cases you would select START 

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Settings  Control Panel  FONTS  FILE [pull down]  INSTALL

NEW FONT

From here you would select your new file C:\temp\DHFREIGHT.ttf

That’s it, the font is installed.

As with all other TTF fonts on your system, the “DHFREIGHT.ttf” file
enclosed within the ZIP file belongs in the FONTS folder of your windows
operating system. This is the only way this file would be useful.

Example:

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3 Font Usage:

The UPERCASE glyphs are Monospaced for reporting marks, Lowercase is for
Road Name lettering. Use Numbers with Uppercase glyphs for best results.

Note: D&H Freight cars mostly use a variant of a Roman influenced font for
general lettering. (Many railroads do, actually, though DH letters are more
subdued and less stylized than most.) The @ glyph is a BOLDED Ampersand
as some were seen to be that way.

UpperCase: (font size 48) Reporting marks - Monospace

ABCDEFGHIJ
KLMNOPQRS
TUVWXYZ
LowerCase: (font size 48) – NAME – Proportional & Bold

Abcdefghijk
lmnopqrstuv
wxyz

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Numbers: (font size 48) - Monospaced

0123456789

Photo: Jonathan Ferraro

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3.1 Special Keys

The emblems are styled after those used on DHFREIGHT Boxcar Photographs.

? Emblem 1

?
\ Emblem 2

\
[ DH

[
] DH Shield

]
> Alternate DH

> Shield

^ Capacity

^ Stencil Guide

3.2 Permission

This is a copyrighted free font. It is not public domain. It may not be edited,
altered, or manipulated in any way, or used in part or incorporated into any
other commercial graphic material without approval from the font author.

Give Proper Credit when used.

CC BY-NC 3.0 US

Pete Willard U www.railsimstuff.com petewillard@gmail.com

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