I’d like to duplicate this “Vulcan” text onto a Cafe-press item. (The “Vulcan” is a line of motorcycles from Kawasaki).
Does anybody have a good idea of what this font is and, perhaps, where I might download a version of it?
A great many trademarks are custom rendered by a graphic artist and are unique. In some cases full fonts are developed if the company so desires and sometimes independent type companies create fonts that mimic well known trademark typestyles.
You may not be able to find an exact match.
About the closest I could find with a quick search was this but the V is way off.
Looking through “more like this” Machiarge isn’t a million miles away either.
A lot of fonts with the right kind of letter shapes have “curly” lower-case ls though, like this.
I’m too lazy to do the work for you right now, but you can either play 20 questions to find out, or copy and paste the letters from the logo so they are all in a straight line and ask this website.
You may also want to review the CafePress Content Usage Policy.
I would be inclined to think that what you’re proposing would be prohibited as an infringement of trademark.
Well…
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If he just uses the same font for a different word without the other elements of the logo, it’s no problem.
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Even if he uses a similar logo, the only reason I can think of for him to do so is as a parody, which is not a trademark infringement. It would be against Cafe-Press rules, but that is not the same thing.
It’s a bit like the font vimeo uses for its text logo
I did the 20 questions as well as I could but nothing in the results was even very close.
I associate this font (strictly intuitionally) with some 50’s streamlined car, but I don’t remember which one I might be thinking of. I wonder if 50’s streamlining is the image that Kawasaki is trying to evoke. Looking at photos online, it does have that sort of feel to it.
Roddy
Looking through my personal font collection I wasn’t able to find a close match. But these fonts evoked a similar ‘feel’:
Airstream
Ballpark Weiner
Deftone
TeamSpirit
I tried straightening the logo (although it was still a little warped) out and uploading it to the myfonts site but it didn’t find a good match. If you could find a straight version of the logo that might help.
I saw a few that sort of looked a little bit like it here: Car Fonts.
More similar feel fonts: Boxer Script JF, Magneto, Mahalia, Rocket, Cocktail Shaker,
Also: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/jawfonts/boxer-script-jf/morelikethis.html
1950s
Car fonts
Retro fonts
Script fonts
ETA: OK I managed to find a straight version of the logo and plugged it in, but the closest I could find is:
Kari Wide Italic
Magneto
Pismo Clambake
So unless you want to recreate it, you’ll probably have to pick something with a similar feel. You might be ok with picking one that has the most similar lower case letters and then just doing the upper case yourself.
This is almost exactly as it is on the keychain, except for the N. This is vector artwork (as opposed to raster or bitmap), meaning it can be scaled to any size without losing resolution.
Be sure to read all of the disclaimers about fair use and trademark infringement, etc. to avoid breaking any laws.
The .eps will go straight into Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign, and can be imported into CorelDraw as a Postscript file.
You guys are great.
You’re right, the “V” is the problem child. The linked lower case seems to come out of almost any font. The “Beer” one near the top of the thread is a good match to my eyes.
I just wanted to wrap the word “Vulcan” around a coffee mug so I can show-off at work. That may violate the rules, though. (Kawasaki’s marketing department seems to be a bunch of slackers. I can get an HD logo on everything from a hat to a mug to a condom it seems but these guys have almost nothing).
Hmm.
Just printing the script “V” alone would be infringement, would it?
Looks like Magneto to me.