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Started by mart356 , Jun 24 2004 12:34 PM

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#1 mart356

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Posted 24 June 2004 - 12:34 PM

Would like to create a logo on some metal parts I'm developing and wondering if the VX logo font is a standard font, or not?

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Posted 24 June 2004 - 12:54 PM

I've been wondering the same thing... :blink:

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Posted 24 June 2004 - 01:13 PM

just did a lomg google and it doesn't seem to be available - at least not under speedster, opel fonts or opel speedster... i'd have thought it is orginally a hand drawn?

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Posted 24 June 2004 - 05:53 PM

Similaly any one know where i can get the porsche one from. I did a website and the porsche "carrera" font would look perfect. Did plenty of google searches but couldnt ever find much.

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Posted 24 June 2004 - 08:28 PM

Similaly any one know where i can get the porsche one from. I did a website and the porsche "carrera" font would look perfect. Did plenty of google searches but couldnt ever find much.

http://www.fonts-for-hairdressers.com/

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Posted 24 June 2004 - 09:33 PM

What do you want the fonts for? I could re-draw the logo, typestyle for you. Vinyl graphics?? Car decals??

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Posted 25 June 2004 - 08:10 AM

What do you want the fonts for? I could re-draw the logo, typestyle for you. Vinyl graphics?? Car decals??

Could you do A-Z and 0-9?

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Posted 25 June 2004 - 08:15 AM

What do you want the fonts for? I could re-draw the logo, typestyle for you. Vinyl graphics?? Car decals??

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Posted 25 June 2004 - 08:18 AM

A-Z and 0-9 would be cool!. I need the font as I'm looking at designing some aluminium side-bars (to go above the doors where the roof supports go) to support surf boards :D . If I had the font I can use that in the cad system to include a VX-style logo within the aluminium sidebar.

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Posted 25 June 2004 - 08:22 AM

I was thinking we could use it for T-shirts with forum names on :D Would that be too poof?

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Posted 25 June 2004 - 03:10 PM

Maybe ask JT where he got the font for the www.VX220.org.uk logo? It's not an exact match but complements it very nicely. Would be nice to have the logo plus our forum names on a set of trackday number plates...

Edited by jneill, 25 June 2004 - 03:11 PM.

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Posted 25 June 2004 - 03:18 PM

Would be nice to have the logo plus our forum names on a set of trackday number plates...

Now that just a bit TOO flash...

(I'll have mine without the "__" at the end of my name, please ;) )

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Posted 25 June 2004 - 03:30 PM

:P I was thinking of paying proper money for them - something to offer from the shop... 3/4 size front plus std size rear. Say £30 or £40 a set? :unsure:

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Posted 28 June 2004 - 08:08 AM

I used this site a while ago, I don't think you are going to have much look finding an exact match but I thought this was just ace...


MyFonts

Might get a close match...

Edited by Eminator, 28 June 2004 - 08:09 AM.

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Posted 17 September 2004 - 12:33 PM

Could you do A-Z and 0-9?

Dragging up a bit of an old one here... well not that old.

I'm working on a complete font A-Z (and the swedish åäö :P ) only capital letters ofcourse. 0-9 and some special characters

I have finished A-Ö may have to do some minor adjustments and create the rest... And then put it together in a font file...

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Posted 17 September 2004 - 12:40 PM

Looking good! will it be TTF ?

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Posted 17 September 2004 - 01:10 PM

Looking good! will it be TTF ?

Yup, there will be a .ttf (true type font) version.

And to answer some other questions in the thread. I suspect that the logo is drawn from scratch since the same letters aren't exactly the same shape either. There is probably no font availible anywere.

Therefor the font can't be exactly "correct" but I have tried to create a font that will be as close as possible. In many cases we can never be shure but as long as it looks good things will probably be ok.

The logo is a bit special since the text doesn't even follow a horisontal line. My font will follow a horisontal line, if you want to create a look like in the logo you will have to rotate it a bit yourself in the graphics program you use, as I have done in my signature.

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Posted 17 September 2004 - 01:20 PM

Here's my attempt at the font. Edit: I'm sorry, this is the debadged version.

Edited by JimH, 17 September 2004 - 01:21 PM.

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Posted 17 September 2004 - 01:22 PM

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Posted 17 September 2004 - 01:23 PM

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