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Main => Artwork => Topic started by: wakerlet on January 19, 2005, 08:42:02 pm
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I'm putting together my instruction sheet for my Marvel Madness arcade machine. I'd like to create a title using a font close to the Marvel logo (see image). Does anyone have anything close to this? A Windows TTF file would be nice if you have it. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Todd
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Here is the start of the card
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It'll be a custom-designed logotype, so you probably won't find an exact match. You might find something similar that they've probably used as a starting point to bastardise into their logo.
I gather Marvel use Comicraft (http://www.comicraft.com/) to design their typefaces (for balloon lettering and such).
Interstate (http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/fontbureau/interstate/blackcompressed/testdrive.html?s=MARVEL&p=72) is quite similar.
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Thanks Oddfeld. Although it's a hack, I think it turned out nice.
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Well, the 'N' and the 'D' look a bit out of place. As I said, that font is just a starting point, you'd need to convert it to paths in Illustrator and modify it a bit. There may be well be a font that's a bit closer.
To make it look more like the Marvel logotype I would probably hack the bottom quarter or so of the 'N' off then stretch it vertically back to the same cap height so you end up with a bottom heavy non-symmetrical 'N' (much like the 'A') and make the 'D' more of a semi-circle with no flat part in the middle of the curve (so it's more like the shape of the bowl of the 'R'). Then I would track the letters in more than you have them so they're overlapping a bit more, like they are in 'MARVEL'.
I don't actually have that typeface but here's a quick photoshop visual made from your JPEG so you can see what I mean:
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Thanks for the help Oddfeld. I know just enough waste hours trying to get this right :)