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Font for custom decals


Atomsk

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I'm looking to create some custom decals to model the Japanese passenger cars operated by the U.S. Army, during the occupation, 1945 - 1952.  I've found commercial fonts very close to the ones used for the English text on these cars, but nothing to represent the Japanese Katakana type codes and numbers.  I did however find a set of outlines for these characters, in a site called "Rail CAD".  Using this data, and a font editor program, I was able to create a reasonable font containing most of the Katakana characters, and all 10 single digit numbers.  You can download this from:

 

JNR Font on Dropbox

 

I've included a PDF with the key mapping for the Katakana, as well as descriptions of their usage in car type markings.

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