How Do You Create An FBI Most Wanted Poster?
Unless you’ve received an AARP card, you probably don’t recall dramatic rows of FBI Most Wanted posters covering post office walls across the nation. These days, post offices use their walls for fancy stamps and shipping containers, but the legend and lore of these iconic flyers remains. If you’re looking to create a Most Wanted poster of your own, this article should get you close. Today’s version features a signature blue banner across the top, but even J. Edgar Hoover might let you get away with good old black if you’re doing this as a spoof. Open a standard 8.5-by-11-inch page in a page layout or word processing program. Drag a 7-by-1-inch text box across the top of the sheet. Fill the box with 100 percent process blue, then type “FBI TEN MOST WANTED FUGITIVE” in all capitals, breaking the text between the words “MOST” and “WANTED” to create two lines of text. Find the closest font family on your menu to the one used by the FBI. Wide Latin was used for the sample. Begin a new line
