On May 24, 12:05, Sipke de Wal wrote:
> Subject: Re: FONT NAME question
> >From what I can gather it must be something very much like ARIAL but
> with a bit more rounded features and the absence of a slant-end on
> the top of the 't'
>
> Maybe you could make it yourself with a tt-font-editor. taking one
> of the ARIAL-fonts as a starting point.
> > Anyone know the name of the font used in the old "d|i|g|i|t|a|l" logo?
I'm
> > trying to reconstruct it (I've found a couple of gif files but I'd
really
> > like line art) for reproduction. Compaq is squashing this logo fast so
> > seeing it is getting harder and harder!
It's not very close to Arial. It's almost exactly standard Helvetica Bold.
I have hundreds of PostScript fonts (I used to be in the printing
business) and I couldn't find an exact match. However, PostScript fonts
are just vector graphic descriptions, and I have software that can read
those into a vector drawing package, so I just took Helvetica as starting
point and tweaked it. The result isn't *exactly* right, but very close.
You can have a PostScript copy of that if you want it...
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Mon May 24 1999 - 16:28:56 BST