my profile | my password | search | faq & rules | forum home

» Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE   » Community   » Film-Yak   » Name This Font

Author Topic: Name This Font Adam Fraser Master Film Handler Posts: 499 From: Houghton Lake, MI, USA Registered: Dec 2001 posted 12-24-2003 11:56 PM                        Can anyone tell me a font comparable to this one. This is one of the original former neons that was on the street marquee when the theatre was built. It would be nice to find something similar to use in print advertising and on the website. Thanks for any info.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-25-2003 12:12 AM                     The lettering in that picture doesn't look like it is from any commercially available computer font (at least not from any of the thousands I've seen). There's lots of great fonts from decades past that have never been digitized into Postscript, True Type or Open Type format. I have several Letraset type catalogs from the 1970s and 80s that have lots of great "analog only" type. For graphics purposes you'll have to get that Pines lettering digitized. The easiest route is to take a good high resolution photograph with no barrel distortion from wide angle lenses. I'll often get back at as far a distance as possible and then zoom into the subject to flatten out perspective as much as possible. Scan in the photo (or if it is digital just open it) in Photoshop. Fine tune the level. From there you can either use the pen tool to hand digitize vector paths in Photoshop or you can bring the photo into a draw program like Illustrator, CorelDRAW or Freehand and recreate the lettering there using the photo as a guide. The simple, monostroke nature of the "Pines" lettering would make the task fairly simple. Once you have a polished vector-based version of the lettering you can make all types of computer graphics with it.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-25-2003 03:58 AM                     That's exactly the way I would tackle that, too.  |  IP: Logged Floyd Justin Newton Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 559 From: Phoenix, Arizona, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 12-25-2003 06:02 PM                     Heh-Heh-Heh-heh! I feel you are 'Coot #2'! FJN  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-25-2003 06:48 PM                  WHO? A mini-me? Enquiring minds want to know! >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 12-25-2003 07:20 PM                        Just like Manny, I have no clue about graphics design, but I would also tackle it exactly in that way if Mr Henderson says so.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-25-2003 07:46 PM                        Ya know, I think I'd probably just do what Bobby said.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 12-25-2003 07:49 PM                     WOW! I can't believe this...Bobby doesn't know what font that is!!! (Hint: it's called Karatuco. )  |  IP: Logged Don Anderson Master Film Handler Posts: 312 From: West Bend, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-25-2003 07:55 PM                     Why is it that I can never see an image that is posted with comments?? I see the old blurry "illegal picture" image, mentioning stealing bandwith from the server. What gives???  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 12-25-2003 07:57 PM                     Read the FAQ. That's what it's there for. You will find a link to it at the top right corner of every page on the forums.  |  IP: Logged Adam Fraser Master Film Handler Posts: 499 From: Houghton Lake, MI, USA Registered: Dec 2001 posted 12-28-2003 12:52 AM                        Brad, Do you happen to know if that font is in a digitized format anywhere? Google doesnt seem to come up with anything. Thanks  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 01-05-2006 12:44 AM                 It has been 738 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Andrew McCrea Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 645 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-05-2006 12:44 AM                        Bobby, do you know what font that "Commodore" name is in? I've seen it used in a lot of current multiplexes. I know that "Africa" or something like that is similar, but not exactly it, and I know that the actual Cinema Treasures logo is in DecoTech (TL?).  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-05-2006 03:58 PM                     The "Commodore" lettering, which I could barely make out in the background, appears to be Gotham Bold. The centerline effect is simply an embellishment one can create within applications like CorelDRAW or Illustrator. It's not an effect one can do with a single click filter. There's more work to it than that, and is too complicated to describe here. The "Cinema Treasures" lettering is ITC Anna. Granted there are lots of freebie font companies and such that copy fonts and change names to circumvent strange copyright laws on typography, but ITC Anna is the original and legit design.  |  IP: Logged

All times are Central (GMT -6:00)

Printer-friendly view of this topic

Hop To: Select a Forum: Category: Operations -------------------- Digital Cinema Forum Film Handlers' Forum Large Format Forum Ground Level Feature Info, Trailer Attachments & REAL Credit Offsets Category: Community -------------------- Film-Yak Film Handlers' Movie Reviews The Afterlife Bob Maar's Joke-A-Thon Category: Classified -------------------- Equipment and Supplies Wanted/For Sale Help Wanted/Seeking Employment Category: System -------------------- Software Beta Testing Forum

The Film-Tech Forums are designed for various members related to the cinema industry to express their opinions, viewpoints and testimonials on various products, services and events based upon speculation, personal knowledge and factual information through use, therefore all views represented here allow no liability upon the publishers of this web site and the owners of said views assume no liability for any ill will resulting from these postings. The posts made here are for educational as well as entertainment purposes and as such anyone viewing this portion of the website must accept these views as statements of the author of that opinion and agrees to release the authors from any and all liability.