Powderhorn Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 I'm making this thread as a repository of guides and resources for those who make National News Newspapers and the like. Any fonts, textures, historical references, or images that you would be willing to share would, I imagine, be appreciated by the larger community. With them, hopefully we see greater access to creating such content and a greater diversity of pieces. Thank you for your time. 6
VirtuallyIdiotic Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 @Juan Alfonso might be worth asking him. 1
Hethwill, the Red Duke Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 So I assume this is the place to share ready templates ( psd, word, doc, open doc, etc ) / fonts / periodic examples ? 1
van der Clam Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 Parchment Paper (feel free to search .png if you want transparent tattered edges):https://www.google.com/search?q=parchment+paper&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj7_KafiaXSAhWL5IMKHey-BWgQ_AUICSgC&biw=1600&bih=770Old Fonts: Again I use a google search, but I try to sway from the extremely elaborate fonts with all the swirls, as it makes for hard reading. It's hard to find proper names for some fonts, because many sites you will use to edit your papers all seem to have user-given names for their fonts, rather than the proper font name.Free image editor sites:https://pixlr.com/editor/http://www169.lunapic.com/editor/http://www.online-image-editor.com/An example (w a handwritten font): 2
Iroquois Confederacy Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 I believe this is where I got the font that I'm partial to from: 18th Century Font I'm rather tempted into actually paying for the 1776 Independence Font. 1
JollyRoger1516 Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 (edited) http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ http://www.readex.com/content/americas-historical-newspapers https://archive.org/ http://library.law.yale.edu/research/guides/resources/americas-historical-newspapers https://storycorps.org/ http://library.princeton.edu/resource/4336 https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/indexes/eanx http://www.lib.umd.edu/dbfinder/id/UMD07772 https://libraries.indiana.edu/americas-historical-newspapers https://www.usmcu.edu/historydivision http://www.marines.mil/News/Publications/ELECTRONIC-LIBRARY/ Not sure how accessible some of these sources are gonna be for you guys but that should cover you for a while. Also you can access all the .gov/.org pages for more sources they tend to reach quite far back soemtimes and are open source. Edited February 23, 2017 by JollyRoger1516 1
Niels Terkildsen Posted February 23, 2017 Posted February 23, 2017 For inspiration etc. here's a Danish repository with thousands of different historical newspapers (mostly Danish): http://www2.statsbiblioteket.dk/mediestream/avis In my newspaper pages, I use the 18th century font posted by WinterPatriot above. I posted some more information about my newspaper creation in particular here. 2
Hethwill, the Red Duke Posted April 11, 2017 Posted April 11, 2017 On 23/02/2017 at 2:42 AM, WinterPatriot said: I believe this is where I got the font that I'm partial to from: 18th Century Font I'm rather tempted into actually paying for the 1776 Independence Font. This is absolutely great. Pretty sure I've seen very similar ones being used in TV series and docs.
Nick the cursed Posted April 11, 2017 Posted April 11, 2017 Ahoy! Here are the parsley and photo outline for my topic. I uploaded them on png for the transparence. Photo border and Parchment (Open image, right click on it and "save image as" to keep transparency with png format) For fonts I downloaded them from http://www.dafont.com http://www.dafont.com/fr/daniel.font and http://www.dafont.com/fr/shipped-goods.font Free to use, enjoy! 2
Hethwill, the Red Duke Posted May 8, 2017 Posted May 8, 2017 http://www.18thcjournals.amdigital.co.uk/Introduction/NatureAndScope#selection ( for reference on layouts, etc )
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