It's being turned into album art for a mix that a friend has asked me to do, the theme being "Moscow, Russia". I'm using it as is for the front.
For the back, I'd like to use the same image with a slight difference. See where there are numberes where each track line starts? I want to replace the name of the first station there with the appropriate track list. In english. However, I've yet to find a comparable font on this here standard-issuse G5 uni Mac.
Please to observe the font (which seems to be the same for Russian & English) & make suggestions as to what it might be or what could be used in its place.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Impact comes to mind. Tried it?
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Yeah....but after fiddling around some, I think that might actually work. I guess I just wasn't dicking with the settings enough. Thanks.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
If you had a higher resolution sample of the font, you could try using this site to identify it. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work too well with the image you've got.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Yeah. I tried it but it says too big. Alas. But a good reference for other times!
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Well, you have to cut out just a part of the text and run it through. But, like I said, it didn't work. The letters are too small.
Also, I'm not sure it would recognize Cyrillic characters. I tried to limit it to the ones that look like Roman letters.
Posted by bX (Member # 419) on :
This may be too anal retentive or something (my GD showing), but one could always cut and paste and build any characters you were missing. Which might be more true to the original face and would give you an opportunity to use reversed Rs and whatnot like what was so fun back in those Red Dawn years. I'm assuming shorter titles here. Anyway it's not all that hard if you've got source vector art.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Yeah, um...no.
I'm doing OK. I am. The real bitch is in translating the Russian titles of Vysotsky's thieves' songs into English. "There are no sharp sensations - all second-hand articles, rotten stuff and stuff" is weird.
Posted by johnny otter (Member # 1841) on :
I'd try Johnston Underground It's cheap too, as fonts go.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Even if I could buy fonts or install them, I wouldn't. But thanks.
The art's done anyway using Impact. It can be seen here, front & back.
(FlareUpload does not seem to be working nicely. Good thing there's LJ.)