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Knight Rider Fonts

Post by rulloa81 » Thu Feb 09, 2006 2:14 pm

I was wondering why they use a different font for the cover of the KR DVD's instead of the font that appears during the intro? Don't get me wrong I do like the newer fonts but I was just wondering why they changed it.
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Post by rulloa81 » Thu Feb 09, 2006 7:06 pm

here are the logos that I am talking about

original:
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Post by msKEN » Thu Feb 09, 2006 7:42 pm

Anyone know the name of the new font? or know of a font that is simular to the one used on the dvd?
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Post by neps » Thu Feb 09, 2006 7:58 pm

The font or a variation of it is called "Bullet"

You can find it here: http://houseind.com/index.php?page=showfont&id=8
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Post by msKEN » Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:51 pm

Thanks Neil!
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Post by rulloa81 » Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:29 pm

Thank you Neps...does any body happen to know the name of the original font?
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Post by neps » Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:55 pm

It's an old wood type font called "Rubens". It was made in 1890. :D You can find a free hack job version of it on some Knight Rider sites, but the spacing and angles are horribly off, plus it doesn't have the lowercase set.

This is a version of it that is a little condensed, and the G is off. http://www.woodentypefonts.com/Pages/rubens.html
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