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Author Topic: Is there a font that matches the cursive "Williams" used on Defender & Multigame  (Read 8301 times)

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Wondering if there is an official Williams cursive font like this.  If not, any suggestions for one that's really close?

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Hi,

I made this up using Palace MT font.

I had to change to outlines and tweak it a bit to make it up, though. The capitals are way off (maybe made up specifically for the logo?), but the body text looks fairly close, I think.

Hope this helps

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Sweet.  Thanks!
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nm, see post below, I think I found the font
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I think that "Commercial Script" might actually be the one.  Take a look at this:


vs the one I got from the Multigame CP


It looks really really really close. 



Here are other fonts that look similar:

Commercial Script T
Commercial Script SH-Reg
Commercial Script SB-Reg
Cafe Aroma
Copperplate Script
Hogarth Script EF Regular
Hogarth Script
Bickham Script Semibold
Bickham Script Bold
Berthold Englische Schreibschrift BQ
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I fount a free version of Commercial Script.  It's not perfect.  It seems a little jaggedy and doesn't seem to line up exactly from letter to letter, particularly when it's bold. But if you do bold it, it's really close to the Williams font.

http://www.grsites.com/fonts/c016.shtml
Scroll down to "CommercialScript3"

Here's a sample



Again, compared to what I got from the Multigame CP

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Hi QB

Looks very close: had a scout around and I have a version of it. Your jagged edges look as if you only have a screen font: attached below is a jpeg of what I used: smooth!

Its still not quite right, but I think it would certainly do the job.



If you need some text typed and vectorised, just post it and I'll get to it later for you.


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Try using two fonts: keep the Commercial Script 3 for the williams part and try Elegance for Multigame, its alot closer
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Try using two fonts: keep the Commercial Script 3 for the williams part and try Elegance for Multigame, its alot closer

Verrrry interesting.   Is there a free "elegance" font?  I just did a quick search but didn't come up with one.

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