The stock Chrome badge doesn't contrast enough on white paint. I've read the plastidip suggestions, but I've seen the mess that turns into after a couple of years. OTOH, a wrap over paint or black film will still lay nice and flat.If you remove the badges....I would leave them off....JMHO...D
I say "keep them guessing".....part of the charm of owning an Alfa.....:grin2:The stock Chrome badge doesn't contrast enough on white paint. I've read the plastidip suggestions, but I've seen the mess that turns into after a couple of years. OTOH, a wrap over paint or black film will still lay nice and flat.
The point of having the rear badges is to quell some of the questions about "what is it". The Q4 badge is needed to resolve arguments with Caltrans about the vehicle having AWD, although it really could use Q4 badge on the front for that purpose.
Of course the fabulous color AR badge in the center inset on the trunk lid doesn't get touched.
I ordered red with black lettering for the brake calipers. The calipers are not in contact with the white, they are surrounded by dark gray wheels. I don't think red would look right, but agree that gray to match the color of the wheels might come out better than black.Vesuvio gray on the lettering badges would stand out nicely on white, without being obnoxious. What color are the brake calipers going to be? Maybe do something that matches the calipers. Get somebody who airbrushes helmets to do a custom fade on the lettering; light on the top, fading to dark on the sides. Monte Carlo Blue on the sides of the lettering, with white on the top would stand out nicely too.
Futura Bold was on the old Alfa logo. The new logo uses a different one.There's something very close that's free, called Alfaowner Script:
https://fontmeme.com/fonts/alfaowner-script-font/
If you want the font in the logo badge, it's Futura Bold.
Thank you, that's good to know!Futura Bold was on the old Alfa logo. The new logo uses a different one.
Alfaowner is a really poor approximation of the Alfa script. Alfa had a proper version of the font made a decade or so ago, which they briefly used on some material. Even that needs lots of retouching when composing words, though.
The Giulia lettering is of course a custom design.
Fun fact: Up to a certain point, the contemporary Giulia was supposed to have an old-style Giulia badge, like the one used on the Giulia GT.
When adding custom details to a car I don't think a precise match of the fonts is all that critical."None of which answers my font question: which would look better, block lettering like the stock badges or "Alfa script"?"
Depends on how big the lettering is going to be, and what kind of look you want. Big Futura Bold letters will look like a sponsored track car. The Alfa script almost needs to have something else with it, otherwise it would look very old-world on a very current style body.
Here's a couple of ideas that might work depending on how big you would want them to be:
I have the same question, and I wonder which of the fonts (if any, or even a mash-up) was used on this watch.When viewed side-by-side like that, you can see they made quite a few changes in the post-2015 script; especially the capital R. Is it a full usable font, or just a vector image?A comparison.
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