Font talk

I haven't read this whole thread but I will share what I have been doing for a while. Forgive me if it is already in these 12 pages!

I use a photo of the commercial pedal to identify the font, using a website like this one:

www.myfonts.com

WhatTheFont Font Finder - Identify Fonts by Image

Identify fonts with our font finder tool using an image or photo. Upload an image, and we’ll search our collection of over 233,000 fonts for the best match.
www.myfonts.com www.myfonts.com

It will result in showing fonts that are, or close to, the one in the photo. Most times it appears to be the exact one or super close. Then I search for the fonts for free. I do not sell these builds, they are only for my garage, so I don't worry about any copyright issues.
 
benny_profane said:
Well, now I’m interested.
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I have some ollllld fonts going back to the early '90s, but the version of that specific one doesn't have the impressive swash glyphs. I have a version of Caslon with separate files that are only swashes, ligatures, ornaments, and alternates respectively. But Serif Gothic is rather scant.

That said, the more modern collections are often times redraws, and some subtleties are lost.

The only issue is that these old PostScript Type 1 (and older…) font files were meant for Macintosh System 7 (up to 9), and have a weird file structure which has separate data and resource forks. If those files get compressed with anything other than the ancient BinHex program, the files break completely. (Technically you can use Stuffit, but the different versions of that cause issues as well.) not that anything other than OS X can use them, anyway… (not even sure up to which version, even)

I finally have means to convert them to otf/ttf, though. I haven't checked thoroughly, but there are some oddball, smaller foundries in that collection, some which may not have been bought by larger ones in the 2000s. One day I'll catalog them.
 
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Cybercow said:
It's a commercial font named: "The Snailson"
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I saw that in the font finder results too, but it’s not it. There are some similarities but if they used that it would have to be heavily edited afterwards. In the logo the only letter that has the mid horizontal strike is the Z.

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Companies will often start with a commercial font and modify it for their intents & purposes, most likely to keep it unique. I just used the whatthefont font finder web page on myfonts-dot-com.
 
Stumbled on this impressive kinetic type widget and thought it might be a fun way to come up with fun labeling or type-based graphics ideas: https://spacetypegenerator.com/.

Obviously a bit busy for a label but gives an idea of some of the available dimensions:

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Also see the "select" menu in the upper right for a bunch more versions. Like this one, "pow":

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Some of them can even be exported as SVG, which might just help pull me out of my UV print "design" rut!
 
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