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Is this Helvetica?
Is it???? thought it was helvetica bold. It could be but just been tweaked a little, the spacing is a bit off and the ‘S’ looks a little squished.
What do you think?
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It might be Arial.
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Looks like its just stretched up a bit… would be better to have a straight on pic though.
Nick.
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Arial too I think
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The ‘C’ is different in Arial, I’d looked at that earlier.
Here it is with my version in helvetica beside it ……….. I’ve adjusted all the spacing so it’s the same ………… but the ‘S’ and the ‘C’ still look a bit different don’t they?????
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What makes me think it’s Arial is the angle on the end of the C, I can make Arial C fit over it exactly. Maybe Im wrong.
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My Helvetica 55 Roman Bold is close.
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I thought the C was Arial as well…I just completed seven 4’x6′ park rules signs with it in 1" lettering (client specified), and I didn’t like the Cs or some of the numbers because of the crooked-looking ends.
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quote Harry Cleary:What makes me think it’s Arial is the angle on the end of the C, I can make Arial C fit over it exactly. Maybe Im wrong.
Harry, it’s maybe the picture but the angle on the end of the c in Arial is a sharper angle than that on the sample I have……. it’s almost but not quite straight on the sample here.
Dave…… I’ll have a look at that one (if I have it)
thanks
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Dave could you attached the words
Fife SCOTTISH
in that version of helvetica for me as an ai and I will have a close look at it??? I don’t have that font.
It would be a help thanks.It’s also possible that it is Arial but it’s a manipulated ‘C’ as the ‘S’ looks better.
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Marcella, it may be triumvirate (not sure if spelling is right) which is a flexi font very similar to Helvetica/Ariel. I will have a look on my other computer and see.
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thanks Martin. I don’t have that font either ………. 😕 I’m doing well ……….. 🙁
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yeh….I see that Marcella….probably is something else…..must be a very discerning customer 😀 or are you being a perfectionist again??
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Harry, suffice to say the customer is a bus enthusiast 😕 and spends loads of time and money on old out of service buses ………. just to keep and look at and take out once in a blue moon! But the replacement of the graphics has to be exactly as they were years ago.
I doubt they’d noticed tiny irregularities in the text, I mean it’s minimal. But I thought I’d see if someone here could nail it first.
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You have my sympathy Marcella, I do loads of old bus lettering and they can be a little fussy to say the least. Sometimes over the silliest bit’s.
Just got a crest to recreate, I was handed a fuzzy photo and a tracing of the old one (knackered) and he said "that’ll be simple for you to do won’t it Steve?" 🙄
Steve
P.S. Not sure of the font either, I’ve seen it quite a few times but never been able to match it. best I’ve done is tweek Helvetica or Arial
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This is quite interesting to read http://www.ms-studio.com/articlesarialsid.html
Never knew the history of these two typefaces, seems Microsoft ‘tweaked’ Helvetica and called it Arial.
If we ‘tweaked’ a Microsoft programme I wonder what would happen?? 😀
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There are a lot of fonts that are the same but one is for mac and one for Mr Gates but both have different names.
crazy world this 😕
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quote Stephen Morriss:You have my sympathy Marcella, I do loads of old bus lettering and they can be a little fussy to say the least. Sometimes over the silliest bit’s.
Just got a crest to recreate, I was handed a fuzzy photo and a tracing of the old one (knackered) and he said “that’ll be simple for you to do won’t it Steve?” 🙄
I’m sure your crest will be simpler!!!!! 😮 :lol1:
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Marcella, "what the font" has got it down to Folio Medium.
I’ve got a version, don’t know if it’s the right one though?Glen
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Just had a look at Folio Medium, it looks the right one to me. 😀
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just had a look at that …………. it’s close but not heavy enough and folio bold is too bold.
here’s a better view of the text (as requested by Nick 😀 )
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Your right, just had another look 🙁
Glen
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it’s similar though Glen ………. same as arial and helvetica :lol1: :lol1:
thank you 😀
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Try… Schulbuch Nord-Fett
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Im staying tuned into this one…..nothing like a good mystery!!….lol
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Don’t think its quite right 😕
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Nick ……………. you do realise we’re all holding our breath for you to crack this one? You won’t sleep tonight unless you get it will you ………… 😉 :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:
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quote Nick Minall:Try… Schulbuch Nord-Fett
where do you find these obscure fonts Nick????? I think you must have a human font browser in your brain!!!!!!! :lol1: :lol1:
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quote Marcella:quote Nick Minall:Try… Schulbuch Nord-Fett
where do you find these obscure fonts Nick????? I think you must have a human font browser in your brain!!!!!!! :lol1: :lol1:
LOL… do you think that one is any good??
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not found it yet Nick ………… I’m looking through font discs, I haven’t got it on my harddrive.
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I’ve just looked at it on myfonts.com ………….. hard to tell………. 😕
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Try here
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that’s what I was looking at ………….. it looks pretty close doesn’t it. I’ll see if I can find the font as a freebie or perhaps someone here might have it and can let me have the words
Fife SCOTTISH
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looks like Maxima EF variation….?
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no it’s not that Dave ………. Nicks font suggestion looks closer.
But thanks anyway for looking 😉
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It looks very close to Swiss 721 Bold, but H looks a little wider…
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What about these Adobe Helvetica’s fonts?
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you know …………… all these fonts are bloody similar :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:
none being perfect ……….. but each and everyone is so close that I’ll take my chances with one of them and see what the customer says! 😉
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I can hear Mister Helvetica turning in his grave! (lisa)
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Marcella try this one.
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Marcella, do you realize that you have spent the last 7 hours faffing with this font and you could have edited it in a few minutes.
Is it me???????? 😕
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Mike she was probably bored 😀 😀
Lynn
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quote Mike Grant:Marcella, do you realize that you have spent the last 7 hours faffing with this font and you could have edited it in a few minutes.Is it me???????? 😕
:lol1: thought the same thing a while ago Mike :lol1:
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Mike/Shane, thats very true, it would only have taken a few minutes for Marcella to edit the font she already had but it wouldn’t have been any where as much fun as having all of us scurrying around trying to find an exact match for her :lol1:
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quote martin:it wouldn’t have been any where as much fun as having all of us scurrying around trying to find an exact match for her :lol1:
sorta like marriage really 😉
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:lol1: I did edit what I had, but whilst I was working on something else I posted it here to see if anyone could identify it first. 😀
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