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Title: Need help identifying a font.
Post by: marcoval on April 16, 2003, 11:28:27 pm

I'm starting my marquee and need help identifying the font I want to use. It is on the www.scottishninjas.com site. The front emblem is surrounded by a quazi-japanese font that says "Scottish Ninjas". Does anyone recognize this font? ???

Title: Re:Need help identifying a font.
Post by: MrToasty on April 17, 2003, 12:07:48 am

Looks similar to Bonzai, Shanghai or Mandarin

edit:
Found it - Chinese Takeaway:
http://simplythebest.net/fonts/fonts/chinese_takeaway.html (http://simplythebest.net/fonts/fonts/chinese_takeaway.html)

Title: Re:Need help identifying a font.
Post by: Pixelhugger on April 17, 2003, 12:51:32 am

Wow Toasty. That was impressive and fast. How about identifying the Retrogames font I've been trying to locate for 2 years or so....?


www.retrogames.com

I'm guessing some of the logo is designed with reversed letters IE the t is obviously an r and the g is an e etc. But what font? Hmmmmmm. I've gotten no response from them. It's similar to PHAT but not exact. Any help? I can do the extrusion and texturing if I can just find the type....

Title: Re:Need help identifying a font.
Post by: MrToasty on April 17, 2003, 01:06:00 am

Quote from: Pixelhugger on April 17, 2003, 12:51:32 am

Wow Toasty. That was impressive and fast. How about identifying the Retrogames font I've been trying to locate for 2 years or so....?

Hmmm...  A bit tougher, but I'll see what I can come up with.

Title: Re:Need help identifying a font.
Post by: shmokes on April 17, 2003, 01:24:33 am

I've got the Adobe Font Folio for my wife who is a graphic design major.  There are seriously WAY too many fonts to go through, though, and even with Adobe Type Manager there is no quick way to go through them all quickly.  No way that I know of anyway.  I'd love to be proven wrong on that.

Title: Re:Need help identifying a font.
Post by: marcoval on April 17, 2003, 01:29:39 am

Thanks! The Chinese Takeaway font was perfect, and now I have the Marquee! Seperate post coming for comments!

Title: Re:Need help identifying a font.
Post by: Brad Lee on April 17, 2003, 01:46:45 am

WHile we're on fonts here, does anyone have a match for the Tempest marquee? Imagica is as close as I've seen, and since it's not for an exact replica it may be good enough

(http://www.sixsixsix.com/tempestimagica.png)
(http://www.sixsixsix.com/tempestmarquee.png)
The real one is a bit more squared off, and I could probably edit it to my needs but if theres a font out there , why the heck not use it?