Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:32:36 -0800
>From: "Al Gillis"
>To: snipped-for-privacy@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
>Subject: Restoring a 302-type telephone [Telecom]
>
>I want to make a dial card (the paper thingus that goes behind the plastic
>window in the middle of the dial) but don't know what fonts to use. I've
>seen photos of such cards that are black with a white window where the
>telephone number was typed. Above the window was the text "Wait" (in white
>characters on a black background) and below the window was the text "For
>Dial Tone" also white on black. The font used for the text was a sort of
>script and the telephone number was typed in a fairly block-ish font.
>Anyone have an idea how to replicate these fonts in a Windows font?
Here are some images of dial centers which may be helpful to you:
formatting link
and Phoneco, a phone restoration supplier, will be happy to sell you sheets of phone dial centers for a couple of bucks. See their catalog page at:
formatting link