FONT NAME question - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

24 May 1999

On May 24, 12:05, Sipke de Wal wrote:
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  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. 
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  > 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...

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York