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#433663 - 09/06/08 10:36 AM Font Question - Help
Scott L Offline
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Getting ready for the " after season " and working out a couple of ideas for " Project Checkmate "

Does anyone know the name of the font in the pictre below ?

Thanks!

Scott

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#433669 - 09/06/08 10:55 AM Re: Font Question - Help [Re: Scott L]
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Looks like a total custom job to me. Note the very different shapes of the two letter "C"s.

And I do not thing it's due to one being cap and the other lower case. All other characters are caps, so I am thinking that the second "C" is also.

The two "E"s also are a bit different.

If that were a named font, they would be identical.
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#433673 - 09/06/08 11:14 AM Re: Font Question - Help [Re: Admin]
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Agree with Admin. Perhaps you can find something similar enough here...Brush Script Fonts
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#433741 - 09/07/08 12:28 AM Re: Font Question - Help [Re: HotByte]
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+1 more. That's custom 'one-off' lettering.

You need a copy of the logo, or more of the same lettering to match it for your ideas?

Who ya gonna call?
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#434175 - 09/08/08 10:08 PM Re: Font Question - Help [Re: Frantically Relaxing]
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You might give a call to the manufacturer. I know that Sea Ray buys the Sundancer font from a private company, Checkmate may do the same. Depending on what you're making you may be able to pay the owner of the font a small stipend and get a license to use it.
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#434179 - 09/08/08 10:21 PM Re: Font Question - Help [Re: GoFirstClass]
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You don't need a license for personal use. Finding the font may be tricky. Finding someone to duplicate it for personal use...
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#434206 - 09/09/08 06:06 AM Re: Font Question - Help [Re: Frantically Relaxing]
Scott L Offline
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Thanks Gents - I did a lot of poking around the net and came to the conclusion that Admin nailed it 100% - this is a " one off " custom job.

On the never ending project, I had some left over carpet and sent it back to have foot rests made and wanted to have the logo embroidered on them. At this point, I may just go with a simple clean font as the pieces of carpet are only 16 x 5 inches and are below the cowlings.
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#434287 - 09/09/08 10:55 AM Re: Font Question - Help [Re: Scott L]
Frantically Relaxing Offline
Never get out of the boat
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The place that does the embroidery should be able to copy your picture and create the vector files needed to embroider the logo. Problem is, when you ask most places to do this they may say no because of trademark infringement. (but it's not)
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#434298 - 09/09/08 11:19 AM Re: Font Question - Help [Re: Frantically Relaxing]
Frantically Relaxing Offline
Never get out of the boat
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I have a collection of thousands of logos that are 'good to go' (perfectly legal to use)-- Only "Checkmate" I could find was a 'staffing solutions' company...

However, I did find these (I'm sure I could find many more!)

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#434453 - 09/09/08 09:54 PM Re: Font Question - Help [Re: Frantically Relaxing]
Scott L Offline
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FR,

I think since the boat by the time I'm done will be a real one off, I'm going to see about designing something of my own and send ot off to www.snapincarpets.com.

Lots of distrations this summer, one of which was some pain in my feet and legs, a complication of my diabetes. Kids are back to school, and I'm feeling better now so I"m really looking forward to getting back to work on the project.
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