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bwelsher
02-16-2007, 06:36 PM
Hi all,
I've recently designed a logo for a client using a comic-style font for the words (not that font) but i'm struggling to find an appropriate body font to match it for use in business letters etc..
At best it would be a windows xp standard font, at worst a font installed with office but does anyone have any suggestions?
Cheers
can we see the font in question?
DesignerScott
02-16-2007, 07:18 PM
have you considered Tahoma, or Segoe UI ? Or are you wanting a serif ?
bwelsher
02-16-2007, 07:49 PM
Sure, here is the logo (and font)
urstwile
02-16-2007, 07:56 PM
Well, going with the notion that it might be an Office font, Tahoma, Verdana or Trebuchet are all fairly decent to look at fonts, in the sans-serif flavor, and would work with your logo, IMO. The appeal of using Office fonts for this instance comes from a corporate identity standpoint, you don't want some people using different fonts for the letters (at least I don't think you'd want to).
I don't think a serif would go as well with the logo, although Goudy Old Style (also an office font) might not be bad.
bwelsher
02-17-2007, 12:24 AM
Lucida sans is a fine choice of font given the criteria, I reckon it a winner.
that's a good one, cool. :)
urstwile
02-17-2007, 01:25 AM
Lucida Sans is cool too, I just wasn't sure if it was available on both platforms. It is on Mac, I wasn't sure about PC.
I'm pretty sure it is, it might be Lucida Sans Unicode though.
bwelsher
02-17-2007, 09:45 AM
Would Lucida Sans Unicode automatically substitute for Lucida Sans where it was not present?
PrintDriver
02-17-2007, 04:42 PM
Might give you an error message where you'd have to opt for it. Wouldn't do it automatically.
urstwile
02-17-2007, 07:24 PM
Well, the less than delightful thing about Word, which I'm guessing most would be using to type the business letters, is that it doesn't tell you that a font is missing (unless there's someplace to look that I don't know about). It'll act like the font is there, but just substitute it with something else, like Times Roman.
So you might need to work with the IT department at the company to make sure everyone's got the font installed on their machines.
fredrich
02-22-2007, 07:32 PM
So you might need to work with the IT department at the company to make sure everyone's got the font installed on their machines.
Or you can embed the font.
urstwile
02-22-2007, 09:52 PM
As far as I know, you can't embed fonts in Word, Fredrich.
fredrich
02-23-2007, 06:34 PM
As far as I know, you can't embed fonts in Word, Fredrich.
You can embed fonts in Word and PowerPoint. In Word:
Tools > Options > Save > Embed TrueType fonts
vtwin_gary
02-23-2007, 06:41 PM
You can embed fonts in Word and PowerPoint. In Word:
Tools > Options > Save > Embed TrueType fonts
nice.. see i knew i came here & read all these posts for something. now that i've learned something today. i think i'll go home.
urstwile
02-23-2007, 11:07 PM
Yes, I knew about that, but they have to be True Type and last I checked, it only works going from one Windows machine to another, not from Windows to Mac or Mac to Windows. So unless everyone's on the same platform and it's a True Type font, it won't work.
It has been a while since I've used that feature (I'm on a Mac), so they may have changed it. It wreaked all kinds of havoc here at work when I created a font for our company logo, not realizing that Mac users wouldn't see it, even though I saved it as True Type.
CatintheHat1
02-25-2007, 08:10 PM
Larabie fonts have quite a few that might suit your needs...100s of them are free. I use them for a kids' newsletter.
bwelsher
02-28-2007, 11:35 AM
Thanks for all the info everyone!