It's like this Joan Crawford logo, from the early 1970s...



I know it's probably a custom font, but I'm positive I've seen a lookalike recently.

It's sort of like Poster Bodoni - but doesn't have those annoying cut-away bits.

There's a curve to it too.

I know there probably isn't an exact match out there, but I know there's a lookalike - I just don't know it's name!!!

Even the logo on the backdrop in this picture isn't exactly the same - notice the "a" and straight "w"...



The font I'm thinking of, looks like Shifty Chica without all the extended tails.

the ball on the "w"

Carousel OT

http://www.fontshop.com/f...rousel_ot/

ZombieKitten said:

Good God - you're amazing! Whatever they're paying you isn't enough.

Now I just need to find a dodgy site I can download it from for free. $35.00 is a lot of money!!!

GirlBrother said:

yup - how many words do you need to set in it?

what I usually do, if it's only a small amount is type it in that website as sample text and save that jpg - sometimes I piece together individual letters in photoshop if it's just a couple of words I need, dodgy I know

there may be some free version of it but it will be names something else

there is a site where you can gt most any type for free
i dont know what i did with it

ZombieKitten said:

sextonseven said:

I never needed the font for anything else I used about 5 letters, one of them twice

Anybody know what the typeset for the Purple Rain inside cover writing is called?

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Whenever I have font questions, I scan the word and upload it to this site: http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I never had the record, is it also on the CD?

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I've got it. It's think it's named "Nikki" on my hard drive - though it's possibly a rip and wasn't originally called "Nikki" at all.

I'll just check to see and let you know in a minute or two.

GirlBrother said:

the text the song lyrics were set in is similar to Mistral but I think Still Time was a better match

ZombieKitten said:

Just checked - and Lottie is right. The font I have named "Nikki" is a rip of a commercial font called Mistral.

http://www.fonts.com/Find...pid=201684

So, sharing the "Nikki" font would be very wrong indeed.

Still Time basically is an upright copy of the Purple Rain logo without the raindrop dotting the "i". You just need to use fake itallic or a slanty free-transform in Photoshop to make it work.

http://www.1001fonts.com/...nt_id=1172

GirlBrother said:

upright, ewwwww

Don't mock - I knocked this up in like two minutes...



I just wanted to demonstrate how Still Time only works when slanted.

It's not a Free Transform. When entering the text use fake italic; then it's Edit, Transform and Skew, to make it slant even more to the right.

GirlBrother said:

:miguelfaints:


Thank you so much!

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I didn't really do anything!

oh yeah, I used it once

ZombieKitten said:

Puprle?

GirlBrother said:

It was for when we made the Pirnce movie starring orgers

ZombieKitten said:

So that's an Imago typo then ?

Mach said:

no, I don't think he had anything to do with it

it was gonna be such a mediocre mess, so I offered to do the film graphics, suitably piss weak

ZombieKitten said:

Just realised the other day that the typeset on Lady GaGa's The Fame album, looks a lot like Still Time font - aside from the capital F...

sextonseven said:

What an excellent resource! Thanks for sharing.

Found the Still Time font again, on a (horrible) sweatshirt at the Top Man website:

http://www.topman.com/web...&langId=-1

When I see freeware fonts on commercial products, I always wonder if the font creators are paid in full.

I see Neuropol a lot. They used to use it on the side of Lucozade Orange Energy drinks. I've also seen it used for captions on TV shows.

http://www.dafont.com/neuropol.font

Very 1990s-looking.