Thank you all, but on the Artcraft font, there are subtle differences. Tops of letters are more curved on artcraft, serifs of S are slightly different, etc. I used the font preview at the fontshop site, but increased the size to 288pt and 388 pt and could see slight differences.
Could the logo have used a knockoff font or is another close font? God knows there are dozens of variations on Garamond, Palatino, Times, Goudy - just to name a few.
Evan, I believe that the differences you saw may have been in the version of Artcraft, or even tweaks by the artist who made the logo. I have no doubt in my mind that Artcraft was the basis for the logo. The typeface was designed by Robert Wiebking in 1912
Philippe, from the MyFonts forum, has noted in the past that Opti had an Artcraft and that there was a Compugraphic version digitized by Alan Prescott. Best of luck trying to deal with Castcraft and I have no idea if the CG font is available anywhere these days.
As to the curvy tops of the letters, that is a distinctive feature of the typeface. A font without those wouldn't be Artcraft. Surely that feature was removed by the logo maker.
28.Jun.2005 11.57am
Can you give a sample?
- Lex
28.Jun.2005 11.59am
i edited my post, thx lex
28.Jun.2005 12.07pm
The serif is Artcraft
- Lex
28.Jun.2005 12.21pm
And 'Matrix' ( Script, Bold ), by Zuzana Licko / Emigre..
28.Jun.2005 12.23pm
BTW, who's the type designer?
28.Jun.2005 12.42pm
Thank you all, but on the Artcraft font, there are subtle differences. Tops of letters are more curved on artcraft, serifs of S are slightly different, etc. I used the font preview at the fontshop site, but increased the size to 288pt and 388 pt and could see slight differences.
Could the logo have used a knockoff font or is another close font? God knows there are dozens of variations on Garamond, Palatino, Times, Goudy - just to name a few.
28.Jun.2005 12.54pm
Evan, I believe that the differences you saw may have been in the version of Artcraft, or even tweaks by the artist who made the logo. I have no doubt in my mind that Artcraft was the basis for the logo. The typeface was designed by Robert Wiebking in 1912
- Mike Yanega
28.Jun.2005 1.38pm
Thanks Mike (i didn't see any kind of credit — fontshop)
28.Jun.2005 1.48pm
Matt Jalbert's version is closer, but not a match.
Philippe, from the MyFonts forum, has noted in the past that Opti had an Artcraft and that there was a Compugraphic version digitized by Alan Prescott. Best of luck trying to deal with Castcraft and I have no idea if the CG font is available anywhere these days.
As to the curvy tops of the letters, that is a distinctive feature of the typeface. A font without those wouldn't be Artcraft. Surely that feature was removed by the logo maker.