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Author Topic: New Forum font? Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 10-31-2005 11:19 PM                     How odd I haven't seen Bobby in the last day or two!  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-01-2005 12:01 AM                     Holy Crap! Last night I'm seeing Arial on the forums. Now I just get back home from watching the Monday Night Football Game at a friend's place and I see the most overused movie title font in history!! TRAJAN! But Trajan does look better than Arial -at least style wise. It's a little difficult to read used in this manner. Too bad most computer users won't be seeing it. Gotta be running some Adobe stuff to have the font! I think the old font (Verdana) looked best. It's normally what I specify as the default when making Cascading Style Sheets for web pages. Speaking of something else with Trajan on it, gotta run to Wal-Mart and pick up that damned SW EPIII disc (and stuff to take to work for lunch tomorrow). BTW, Joshua, the Looney Tunes thing is really a logo, not a font. Just custom drawn lettering. But it looks quite a bit like Futura Extra Bold ---- Source of Trajan: lettering on the base of the Trajan Column (a tribute to the Roman Emperor, Trajan), carved around 1000 years ago.  |  IP: Logged Brian Michael Weidemann Expert cat molester Posts: 944 From: Costa Mesa, CA United States Registered: Feb 2004 posted 11-01-2005 12:22 AM                        No Trajan for me. Everything's coming up Verdana again. Except for a few straggling Arial lines. Ah, fun with fonts!  |  IP: Logged Andrew McCrea Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 645 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Registered: Nov 2000 posted 11-01-2005 09:24 AM                        Hey Bobby, Do you have any idea what font was used for the "Odeon" part of that logo? I can identify the "DRIVE-IN" part- It's Futura extra bold.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-01-2005 09:57 AM                     The "Odeon" letters look pretty odd. My first hunch is custom hand drawn lettering. If they come from a font it's from some odd-ball font I don't know. The "Drive-In" part could be Futura Extra Bold, if it is artifically stretched. But it looks more like Antique Olive Nord to me.  |  IP: Logged Andrew McCrea Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 645 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Registered: Nov 2000 posted 11-01-2005 10:11 AM                        Thanks!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 11-01-2005 05:37 PM                        It's obviously a custom font since the letters connect together so perfectly. No real font does that well.  |  IP: Logged

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