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 Cool. Thanks. I also found a knock off of Trajan called "J.D.- Closer/LWTUA" on this site. It has the elongated "Q" but had to manual extend the stroke inside the "Q".
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Im looking for universe 73 black font extend does any one have it in ttf? would greatly appreicate it
Thanks
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 Hey, this font is used all over the place in the city of Chicago--signs, the subway, museums, everywhere. It's also used in a lot of the headers at www.architecture.org, where I got this example. The key letters that are throwing me off are the R, A, and P, but the C is unique as well, and the F and E are noteworth since their middle bars don't extend all the way. Sackers Gothic has been suggested as being close, but it's not quite the same font (the A, at least, is different). Any thoughts? Thanks a bunch!
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Any drawing or image manipulation program that can handle text will do. Photoshop/Illustrator/Paint Shop Pro/Corel Draw/Freehand/Gimp/... too many to mention. One program that most people never think of for doing something like this is good old Microsoft Powerpoint. Almost everybody has it Almost no-one uses it.
Try this; type your text in a textbox, copy the textbos and paste as an enhanced metafile. Now you have a vector image that you can manipulate any way you want. To imitate the text you want you will have to experiment with the letter spacing while in the textbox. It will take time as to a large extend it is trial and error.
Success.
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Mmmmm yeah maybe. People seem to like it though so who knows... I have ideas on how to improve it further.
such as minimizing the extremity of the round overshoots on lowercase letters, as Ivan rightly observed cause an unevenness to the fonts overall appearance...
and i'd like to replace te capital M & N with that of "Caviar Dreams" (the corners on them are "flat' as champagne's meet at a point and another tendency of mine is to have such points also meet at an exaggerated overshoot of baselines or cap-hieghts.... see 'N' of lt oksana!)
and touch up kerning of course...
and extend left and right { and [ symbols to the depth of lowercase descenders....
you know just to name a few.
I guess if I do all those things i might as well just consider it a new font w/a new name. he he.
and as usual I wrote a novel here, because I am a geek :)
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Thank you for your help. I will let you know if I have any more troubles.
Yes, what you noticed was intentional, all similar glyphs a,b,d,p,q have the the same amount of ascension above the x height and desension below the baseline.
I just played with this feature & ran with it throughout the font. Yes, it was intended to be a part of it's unique identity. Truly an "experiment," as I refer to my dabbling in making fonts.
But I agree, though I meticulously edited & designed this font, this feature gives it an undesirable uneven appearance at some weights/ styles /settings.
I'm sure you are familiar with the round overshoot technique; rounded letters like the capital O should slightly larger than the average height of the other capitals to counter-act the fact that it's rounded shape gives it the allusion that it is smaller. I took this design rule and exaggerated it.(reason for describing that this "sweet" font "doesn't adhere to old rules")
It is a unique characteristic, but had I not done this.... I'm sure Champagne & Limousines would be even more lovely.
Also, Champagne & Limousines Bold adds an alternate look to normal, rather than emphasis. In bodies of text, there's not that much variation/contrast between the two (normal & bold). It's more like a "less light" version than a bold style. I recommend using Thick or Thick Bold in bodies of text where bold is needed.
One other thing, I regret that '{' and '[' characters do not extend to the lowercase descenders only to the baseline. That is a mistake. I felt better about that when I saw GeosansLight does the same thing though!
Anyways... thanks again!~Lauren
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