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Identify this font

Over Achiever

Over Achiever

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I designed my own logo a few years back, and I have no idea what font I used for it. The g I think is distinctive if that helps.

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Jim Campbell

Jim Campbell

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Over Achiever said:
I'm just curious, how do you go about figuring out what font it is?
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Honestly? It's fifteen years of designing stuff, and seeing stuff that other people have designed, plus (and this is the important bit) being really, really geeky about knowing which font has been used in jobs that you see by other designers.

I'm pretty sure I don't have that particular font installed on my system, but I do know which of my installed fonts are cursive or handwriting fonts, so simply launching FontBook, changing the sample text to 'Custom' and then cycling through all the possibly relevant fonts normally does the trick.

Cheers!

Jim
 
bsheridan

bsheridan

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Jan 11, 2008
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Can anyone help me identify this font please? It is taken from this page on apple's site.

Cheers,
b.
 

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theTechnician

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Help?

Can anyone help me identify this font? its from my client's logo, and I need the font for redesigning his website...
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mbzzzzzz

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Thought it was Avant Garde but the G is different
 

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Macky-Mac

Macky-Mac

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Here's a scan of something that was printed in 1918....that squashed "g" doesn't match anything in my collection and neither does the italics at the top

any ideas?
 

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Jim Campbell

Jim Campbell

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Macky-Mac said:
Here's a scan of something that was printed in 1918....that squashed "g" doesn't match anything in my collection and neither does the italics at the top

any ideas?
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I'm pretty sure that's Times, and the variations from what you'll see on your computer screen are artefacts of the printing process at the time, rather than intentional font design.

Cheers!

Jim
 
Macky-Mac

Macky-Mac

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Jim Campbell said:
I'm pretty sure that's Times, and the variations from what you'll see on your computer screen are artefacts of the printing process at the time, rather than intentional font design.

Cheers!

Jim
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Thanks for the input. Times was my first thought too.....and prob what I'll use.....but when I typed out a few lines I noticed some differences, especially with the italics so I wondered if it was something else
 
J12300

J12300

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Looking for this font from this pict!!!
Upper right corner font of NORCALSRT-8!!!

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R.I.P...RON!!!

Any help would be greatly appreciated...u can pm me too...Thanks!!
 
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