Name That Font!
May 13, 2006 4:40 PM Subscribe
Name That Font!
Can anybody name this font?
I'm converting a client's tiny raster logo into vector and have had no luck with www.whatthefont.com or www.identifont.com. Please help!
Can anybody name this font?
I'm converting a client's tiny raster logo into vector and have had no luck with www.whatthefont.com or www.identifont.com. Please help!
That's not it, though. Perhaps it's a custom design?
posted by Count Ziggurat at 5:12 PM on May 13, 2006
posted by Count Ziggurat at 5:12 PM on May 13, 2006
I can't imagine why you said whatthefont.com didn't help. It accepts a URL, so I gave it the URL of your sample. On the next page, it had misidentified several of the characters, but I corrected them in the supplied boxes.
Just one more click and it gave Dragon EF Demi Bold. At 72 points, it shows delicate features like serifs, but you admit that you scanned a "tiny raster logo." At 24 points, you can't see the serifs.
If this isn't the font, then the true font is either a rip-off of Dragon EF Demi Bold, or Dragon EF Demi Bold is a rip-off of the true font. It's way too close to be a miss. Dragon seems to be the original, as Bitstream (myfonts.com) says it was originally released as a typeface in 1974.
posted by mdeatherage at 5:21 PM on May 13, 2006
Just one more click and it gave Dragon EF Demi Bold. At 72 points, it shows delicate features like serifs, but you admit that you scanned a "tiny raster logo." At 24 points, you can't see the serifs.
If this isn't the font, then the true font is either a rip-off of Dragon EF Demi Bold, or Dragon EF Demi Bold is a rip-off of the true font. It's way too close to be a miss. Dragon seems to be the original, as Bitstream (myfonts.com) says it was originally released as a typeface in 1974.
posted by mdeatherage at 5:21 PM on May 13, 2006
Dragon EF Demi Bold looks different to me. Look at the t's - your font has a horizontal top, unlike Dragon's sloping t top. The left side of your font's o is wider than the right, again unlike Dragon's symmetrical o's.
posted by matthewr at 5:25 PM on May 13, 2006
posted by matthewr at 5:25 PM on May 13, 2006
Just one more click and it gave Dragon EF Demi Bold. At 72 points, it shows delicate features like serifs, but you admit that you scanned a "tiny raster logo." At 24 points, you can't see the serifs.
Even a cursory visual comparison shows that the source font is not the font you linked too. Dragon's o symetrical, as are the verticle lines in the 'e'. The source font is not.
posted by delmoi at 5:46 PM on May 13, 2006
Even a cursory visual comparison shows that the source font is not the font you linked too. Dragon's o symetrical, as are the verticle lines in the 'e'. The source font is not.
posted by delmoi at 5:46 PM on May 13, 2006
That said, you could probably use Dragon, expand to vectors, and then modify the o by hand.
posted by delmoi at 5:47 PM on May 13, 2006
posted by delmoi at 5:47 PM on May 13, 2006
WhatTheFont: MyFonts reckons it's Dragon EF Demi Bold
But there's a site called Identifont you could also try. I didn't have enough info to find your font - If you have more example text ...
posted by Dub at 5:52 PM on May 13, 2006 [1 favorite]
But there's a site called Identifont you could also try. I didn't have enough info to find your font - If you have more example text ...
posted by Dub at 5:52 PM on May 13, 2006 [1 favorite]
Best answer: You can't always do it with machine matching.
It's ITC Luna Bold.
posted by zadcat at 6:02 PM on May 13, 2006
It's ITC Luna Bold.
posted by zadcat at 6:02 PM on May 13, 2006
I know the question has been answered, but I always tell people to go to Typophile, where they love doing this sort of thing.
posted by O9scar at 6:08 PM on May 13, 2006
posted by O9scar at 6:08 PM on May 13, 2006
Response by poster: Thanks, zadcat, you are a king among men
Everyone else: thanks for your suggestions. I can't say I did any better in finding the font, myself!
posted by ThFullEffect at 6:30 PM on May 13, 2006
Everyone else: thanks for your suggestions. I can't say I did any better in finding the font, myself!
posted by ThFullEffect at 6:30 PM on May 13, 2006
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posted by Count Ziggurat at 5:10 PM on May 13, 2006