About the Stickers

When working on my Fiero and after the repaint and restore, most of the factory stickers were removed for paint. I spent over 100 hours painstakingly recreating each sticker for my Fiero. The emission sticker sticker alone has over 60 individual layers in Photoshop. After all of this work, I decided to make them available to others. This also meant that I would have to create the Emissions stickers for each of the 9 different years & models, as every one of them is different.


THE PROCESS:
I obtained an original of each sticker, and did a high resolution scan of each one. I then placed the scanned image on a background layer in Photoshop to the exact scale and measurements

The text was not as simple as just typing what was on each sticker. Back when GM produced these stickers, they were created on a machine press where each letter was placed by hand. Thus just typing the work “Emission” over the original sticker, the letters would not line up precisely. In many cases I had to place each and every letter manually to precisely reproduce the original stickers.

The other matter was the fonts. I spent roughly $300 on the different fonts for the stickers. Luckily some of them were in the public domain. The jacking sticker alone for instance has 6 different fonts.

I was unable to find an exact font for some of the stickers, and thus had to create a couple fonts by hand.

ALIGNING THE FONT

On the right, you can see one of the coolant warning stickers. The background is a scan of the original sticker. On top of that is the new text duplicating the font, and the alignment of the text to the original.

There are a few letters that are not 100% aligned, do to some warping & stretching of the original sticker that happened during removal.


Some areas, such as the “Printed in the USA” it is almost impossible to tell that there is text typed over the original sticker.

In the image on the right you can see some ghosting around the letters. That is because my lettering is on top of the image of the original sticker. You can see how precisely the text is lined up.