Looking for Corvette similar font

robbio

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Oct 7, 2010, 11:26:10 AM10/7/10

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Hi,

I was looking for the font used in this logo:
http://www.businessmagazine.it/articoli/2565/nascita-e-sviluppo-delle-workstation-hp_2.html

I mean, the logo on yellow PC case image showing the word "corvette".
it seems to be using teh Corvette font. Googling a lot I found the font
Corvette but in the regular form
that font is "italicized" while the word in the logo seems to me written
in a straight vertical form.

Anyone knows what type of font is used for that logo? and where I can
find it?

Thank you
Roberto

David E. Ross

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Oct 7, 2010, 11:51:51 AM10/7/10

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This appears to be a Bauhaus font. However, my favorite Web site for
identifying fonts is not responding right now.

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robbio

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Oct 7, 2010, 1:28:22 PM10/7/10

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On 10/7/2010 5:51 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
> On 10/7/10 8:26 AM, robbio wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was looking for the font used in this logo:
>> http://www.businessmagazine.it/articoli/2565/nascita-e-sviluppo-delle-workstation-hp_2.html
>>
>> I mean, the logo on yellow PC case image showing the word "corvette".
>> it seems to be using teh Corvette font. Googling a lot I found the font
>> Corvette but in the regular form
>> that font is "italicized" while the word in the logo seems to me written
>> in a straight vertical form.
>>
>> Anyone knows what type of font is used for that logo? and where I can
>> find it?
>>
>> Thank you
>> Roberto
> This appears to be a Bauhaus font. However, my favorite Web site for
> identifying fonts is not responding right now.
>

I saw the Bauhaus font here:

http://www.identifont.com/list?2+bauhaus+0+N7+726+68L+158+517+104+51D+49+1MU+0+L9R+0+8YS+0

but it doesn't seem it, the letters are heavily rounded than "Corvette"
font.

Anyway thank you,
roberto

Character

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Oct 7, 2010, 1:54:29 PM10/7/10

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The 'Corvette' font that you found appears to be an extrapolation of
the Corvette logo, done by Johnathan Martin in 2002. Since the logo
was slanted, so was his font.

It's a trivial job to skew the font back to vertical; specifically,
skew it left 33.4°. A new upright font could be made with a font
creation program such as FontLab, or, the existing font could be used
and the final result skewed in most publishing applications.

If you have access to the alt.binaries.fonts newsgroup, I'll post an
upright version there for you.

- Character

robbio

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Oct 7, 2010, 2:00:34 PM10/7/10

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Thanks for these useful informations.
Looking for you on alt.binaries.fonts.

Thank you
Roberto

tlvp

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Oct 17, 2010, 10:40:56 PM10/17/10

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On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:54:29 -0400, Character <Ch...@cters.bold.italic> wrote:

> If you have access to the alt.binaries.fonts newsgroup, I'll post ...

Doesn't seem to be a group RayBan's Eternal September NNTP
service carries, nor do I find it on the Xanadu-bbs NNTP service.

Care to suggest a (preferably free) NNTP service that *does* carry it?

Thanks very much; and cheers, -- tlvp
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Odysseus

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Oct 23, 2010, 4:57:59 PM10/23/10

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In article <op.vkq22...@acer250.gateway.2wire.net>,
tlvp <tPlOvUpB...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:54:29 -0400, Character <Ch...@cters.bold.italic> wrote:
>
> > If you have access to the alt.binaries.fonts newsgroup, I'll post ...
>
> Doesn't seem to be a group RayBan's Eternal September NNTP
> service carries, nor do I find it on the Xanadu-bbs NNTP service.

Eternal September doesn't carry any "binaries" groups.

> Care to suggest a (preferably free) NNTP service that *does* carry it?

Teranews does; there's a small one-time registration fee, but no further
charge for a minimal (50 MiB/day IIRC) subscription.

--
Odysseus

tlvp

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Oct 27, 2010, 3:23:19 AM10/27/10

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Thanks for the Teranews pointer, Odysseus. Worth my looking into.

Cheers, -- tlvp