name that font!

September 7, 2007 11:52 AM

What is this font? And this color?

Is the font for this company's logo proprietary or can I find it somewhere (like on my computer!)? What about the color?

posted by echo0720 to media & arts (11 comments total)

The "CSC"? It looks to just be made up of the same shape repeated over, so it might not be a 'font' at all, just the elbow-pipe shape artfully arranged.

As far as the color, the eyedropper in Photoshop will tell you. Someone who comes along will surely have access to it; I currently do not.
posted by fogster at 11:56 AM on September 7, 2007

The red color? It's #CE0000.
posted by iconomy at 11:58 AM on September 7, 2007

Thanks! At work, the closest thing to photoshop I have is powerpoint. Or maybe MS Paint!
posted by echo0720 at 12:18 PM on September 7, 2007

I'm always either trying to figure out a screen color or the size of an online image, so I wouldn't be without the freeware programs HTML Color Picker and Pixel Ruler. And no one has yet mentioned playing "20 Questions" (or more) with Identifont.
posted by Joleta at 12:55 PM on September 7, 2007 [1 favorite]

I very much doubt there is a font of that logotype.

Whoever is in charge of their publications probably has a specific Pantone color they use consistently. This on-screen version is a pure, 100% saturated red, approx. 81% brightness.
posted by D.C. at 1:11 PM on September 7, 2007

I can pull a high-quality version of the logo out of one of their PDFs, if you'd like. I don't think it's a font either.

From that PDF, the "raw" CMYK colors for the logo are C 9.41 M 100 Y 85.49 K 1.57
posted by O9scar at 1:43 PM on September 7, 2007

The logo is a gif, and it may be proprietary, but I found similar fonts searching "stencil" at Identifont.
posted by misha at 2:59 PM on September 7, 2007

got it (or close enough) - thank you all!
posted by echo0720 at 3:27 PM on September 7, 2007

In the future you can try whatthefont.com
posted by mjger at 5:48 PM on September 7, 2007

There's a Firefox plugin called ColorZilla that gives you a little eyedropper you can use to find the color of any pixel on any web page. (Like the #426746 background of this one.) It kind of rocks.
posted by bink at 8:45 PM on September 7, 2007

pssst ... color help for all ya enthusiasts: http://kuler.adobe.com.

with love,
k.
posted by krautland at 11:55 PM on September 7, 2007