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What is the font used for this version of the band name?
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It's Arial printed at 80% width.
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Thanks for that, I thought it was arial but it never looked right when I tried to make covers in the past. I'll have another go one of these days.
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i seem to recall it might actually be "arial narrow" with some of the letter-spacing removed.

been a while since i copied it from the official website's logo :?
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Arial at 80% width is identical to the official site's logo. Having said that, Arial narrow is probably Arial at 80% width...

You have to fiddle with the tracking to get the letters almost overlapping like that. A bit of trial and error. IIRC set the tracking at -50 on Photoshop.

This is the result I got trying to duplicate the logo from the official Sisters site:

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I found Arial (spit!) Narrow to be closer than condensing plain Arial (vomit!), but I'm a pain in the ass where typefaces are concerned.
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Now we're talking fonts:
What's the font used on Gift, it's not the 'usual' Caslon Antique, is it?
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Obviousman wrote:Now we're talking fonts:
What's the font used on Gift, it's not the 'usual' Caslon Antique, is it?
dunno what "the sisterhood" is written in but it looks like a fairly standard serif font.

and i'm pretty sure the "Gift" bit is "Goudy T Light"

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/urw/goudy/t-light/

i think its got a bit of weathering added, with a lighting effect on from the left-hand side that casts the right-hand side into shadow. then ramp up the contrast and thats about it. i think. havent tried it but if you have the font its easy enough to try in photoshop.
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after pissing about for a few minutes:

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didnt have the "light" version of goudy so tried it with the standard version. couldnt find a decent filter that weathered it so applied a few lighting ones and ramped up the contrast...

nearly. its deifnitely the right font though (the light version that is, not the one i have)
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Gift seems to have a classic old face serif (almost impossible to track down, though Goudy is very close) for the band name and a hand drawn font for 'Gift'.
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look at the way the shadowing has picked out the shape if the i's dot, and the feet of the i and f. also the brodge of the t.

i'm pretty sure "Gift" is that same font i've mentioned there.
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my e-mail went down right after I posted my last comment :(
Goudy it is <peeved>
I dug the album out of the Blast Archive tonight, the word 'Gift' is far thinner and has a more hand drawn look, Barry.
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But we can all live with Gift/Poison, can't we?

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James Blast wrote:I found Arial (spit!) Narrow to be closer than condensing plain Arial (vomit!), but I'm a pain in the ass where typefaces are concerned.
Fair play to you if you can see a difference! :lol:

We had a Typography module on our VisCom degree; thank fück I'm not likely ever to have to hand-draw lettering again.

*Edit: Oh, and agreed on the spit and the vomit. Arial is almost as bad as Comic Sans. :urff:
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markfiend wrote:*Edit: Oh, and agreed on the spit and the vomit. Arial is almost as bad as Comic Sans. :urff:
How about Times New Roman then? I like Arial far better than that, personally... But then again I'm not into all those graphical thingies :lol:

Oh, and :notworthy: for the info on the Gift font
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Gill Sans for a sans-serif font and Sabon for old-style serifs. I'm not so much into serif fonts unless they're old style. (Which TNR isn't)
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Garamond Narrow, for obvious reasons :wink:
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