# finding fonts
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-fonts/583821
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [May 31, 2011, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-fonts/583821 "2011-05-31T03:44:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2011, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-fonts/583821/1 "2011-05-31T03:44:28Z")
Is there an easy way to find an alphabet in a font that is not standard?
For example, if I wanted to get the font for the emblems on a 60’s era stingray, does it exist?
I’m trying to make something for a friend that owns a stingray, and would love to spell his name out with a Stingray font, preferably the one on the car itself.
Any advice? Or are specialized fonts like this owned by GM and would therefore have to be paid for if I wanted to use it.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2011, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-fonts/583821/2 "2011-05-31T05:10:00Z")
No idea if this is the one you’re looking for but here is one [Corvette](http://carfonts.com/download.php?font=Corvette) font. And [another.](http://geek.thinkunique.org/2007/09/14/corvette-c5-font/) And the [Stingray](http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/forum/case/211235/).
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### Author:  [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2011, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-fonts/583821/3 "2011-05-31T23:37:50Z")
Thanks for the links, Magiver, but not what I’m looking for.
I wonder if it would be better if I were to ask this in a more generic sense… do fonts for Ford, Chrysler, and GM vehicles exist somewhere to be used like any other font?
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### Author:  [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-fonts/583821/4 "2011-06-01T00:40:39Z")
[daFont.com](http://daFont.com) has fonts organized by theme, and they are searchable. Try searching for “Stingray” for example, and see if anything pops up. Or check out the “Retro” theme.
[MyFonts.com](http://MyFonts.com) has a font-finding service (hit-or-miss in my experience). You upload an image of the font you are trying to track down, tell it what blobs are what letters, and it analyzes the letter forms and tries to find the font that best matches.
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### Author:  [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2011, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-fonts/583821/5 "2011-06-01T01:24:38Z")
Something like a Corvette nameplate of the 1960s was not cast from a font or typeface in the way that people from the computer era know them. Chances are that there wasn’t even a full alphabet drawn. Instead, an artisan sketched the desired design, a craftsman carved it in some soft material, and castings were made. So GM might have somewhere a drawing of the nameplate, but certainly not a digital typeface or metal matrices.
Now there are a lot of people who have made computer typefaces that attempt to mimic various auto nameplates, and you might be able to find one of those.
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### Author:  [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2011, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-fonts/583821/6 "2011-06-01T02:00:10Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#):
>
> Thanks for the links, Magiver, but not what I’m looking for.
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> I wonder if it would be better if I were to ask this in a more generic sense… do fonts for Ford, Chrysler, and GM vehicles exist somewhere to be used like any other font?
they may or may not exist. Looking at the Corvette boards there appears to be a number of them but many of the links didn’t work. I didn’t realize the Stingray link I gave you wasn’t a font (why does someone start a web page announcing a font?).