New Car Advertisment

**sallybode** · 07 June 2007, 08:31 PM

Your car ad is really good, a note on the text, the most popular font from the fifties was Futura for gothic text, also Balloon lettering was popular and a font called Airstream.

The chrome is great.

**parahandy** · 07 June 2007, 08:44 PM

Thank you Ron that will give me something to think about.
.Norman

**Ron Duke** · 07 June 2007, 08:46 PM

Originally Posted by sallybode

Your car ad is really good, a note on the text, the most popular font from the fifties was Futura for gothic text, also Balloon lettering was popular and a font called Airstream.

The chrome is great.

The website's picture is very small, but if you look close enough you can see the basic font used in this original ad placed in 1954. Beacause of the size of the picture I couldn't definitely identify the actual font, but I think the one I chose is pretty close.
http://www.adclassix.com/ads/54chevroletbelair.htm

If you go to this website you'll see quite a wide range of fonts used back in the day: http://www.adclassix.com/caradsindex.htm

I didn't want to copy any single ad, so I did make it my own.

**gray** · 08 June 2007, 03:08 AM

Great to see the car in larger form Ron. Wonderful job. Your Grandfather must have been proud driving that around. They used to be called hard top convertibles. When the windows were wound down there was no door post. It was quite a design feature at the time.