Rage Italic alternative font help

[Drazan]

So I have a logo that used something super close to Rage Italic. The difference is not in the form of the letters, it the fact that Rage Italic does not have smooth curves. I really don't want to spend a huge amount of time recreating what is essentially a font.

Any suggested alternatives?

[urstwile]

Are you just going for general feel, then Drazan? You might try myfonts.com. You can put Rage Italic in, and then show similar fonts to it. I'm not sure exactly what you're going for with picking something that's close.

Maybe post up a sample if you can of what the logo looks like?

[budafist]

Identifont is your friend :)

http://www.identifont.com/find?similar=mistral&q=Go

[urstwile]

Kaufmann might be considered similar as well. Just not sure exactly what's required here. :) Rage Italic almost seems to be a cross between Mistral and Kaufmann in a way.

[budafist]

Rage is pretty damn close to Brush Script (http://www.identifont.com/similar?GV) too.

[Drazan]

Basically I need the same font but with out the bumpy curves.

http://jadeadragon.com/shared/gd/rage_italic.jpg

The person before had this printed with cheap office store $11 cards. So the ink made the font smooth out. Well now we are printing a smooth digital print with laminate which will show every imperfection of that script font.

The person is an interior designer and actually copy and taped cut out pieces of text to make up her card the way she wants it. So details will be noticed.

[Drazan]

And rage italic does match letter for letter the shape of the font used.

[urstwile]

I can't come up with anything that would be a smooth version of the original font, just fonts that are in that same feel.

Maybe Red Kittie Kat could be of help. I looked up Rage Italic, and didn't see any smooth alternates.

[Silence04]

Photoshop might work
maybe try bluring it to the point where you don't see bumps, then tighten up the arrows in Levels until it is solid again.
then select it and make paths. (remember, the higher resolution the more precise paths)

[Riya]

Or outline it in illustrator and start deleting extra anchor points. I remember doing this with papyrus for some stupid reason or another, but I don't remember which. It did work pretty well though, and as long as you don't have a super lot of text, it doesn't take that long.

[Exodus]

I don't care how little of time it would take... it would still suck to have to resort to that!

[Riya]

Meh, better than photoshopping it and having rasterized type, but that's just me.