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Any Font Experts?

-Maverick-

-Maverick-

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In a bit of a conundrum here...my wife wants this suit, but as with all ladies suits, there's an industry wide problem in that women's bodies come in so many variations of sizes that it's not economically viable for these companies to make every size. So they make a generic 5'7 140 lb suit. My wife is 5'10 and 150, athletic build and every single manufacturer is too short in the arms and legs and chest is too small. Which leads us into custom suit territory. She wants to use the HELD logo font without using the HELD logo name. Any of you techy guys know or recognize this font?


Thank you in advance.

The guy formerly known as Mladin.
 
-Maverick- said:
In a bit of a conundrum here...my wife wants this suit, but as with all ladies suits, there's an industry wide problem in that women's bodies come in so many variations of sizes that it's not economically viable for these companies to make every size. So they make a generic 5'7 140 lb suit. My wife is 5'10 and 150, athletic build and every single manufacturer is too short in the arms and legs and chest is too small. Which leads us into custom suit territory. She wants to use the HELD logo font without using the HELD logo name. Any of you techy guys know or recognize this font?


Thank you in advance.

The guy formerly known as Mladin.
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as a thicc motorcycle rider, I too have recently gone through this very conundrum myself, and have discovered that spec sheets and sizes are completely irrelevant and meaningless for the most part.

According to ol big poppas gut measurements, I would have to go into custom track suit size territory as well, but bigevildooer was kind enough to let me try out some of his track suits, and it turns out, my waist would have no problems fitting into them at all (USA sizes)

Bigger issue was height, but I was able to figure out that a suit a few sizes bigger would work no problemo, and I wouldnt have to go into custom suit territory at all

If you or the wife know a friendly female rider who can let you try out a track suit, it would be a way better way to gauge sizes than a spec sheet imo.
Or maybe go visit a retailer and try them out in person?
 
-Maverick- said:
She wants to use the HELD logo font without using the HELD logo name. Any of you techy guys know or recognize this font?
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held_logo.png


It's some kind of sans serif font, probably custom. But you can modify an existing font, it looks like they use the upper case H, then lower case "eld" and squash it down.

This is a quick mockup using the "Arkitech" font: Arkitech Font - 1001 Free Fonts

lightcycle.jpg

Given some time, I could tweak it so it looks more like the Held font. Let me know what text you want to print out, I'll give it a whirl and give you a vector file if you like it,.
 
Lightcycle said:
held_logo.png


It's some kind of sans serif font, probably custom. But you can modify an existing font, it looks like they use the upper case H, then lower case "eld" and squash it down.

This is a quick mockup using the "Arkitech" font: Arkitech Font - 1001 Free Fonts

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Given some time, I could tweak it so it looks more like the Held font. Let me know what text you want to print out, I'll give it a whirl and give you a vector file if you like it,.
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Excellent! She wants the word "Freedom" written across the rear stretch panel in the Held or similar font. If you can do a version in all caps and one with just the F capitalized that would be much appreciated.

The guy formerly known as Mladin.
 
-Maverick- said:
Excellent! She wants the word "Freedom" written across the rear stretch panel in the Held or similar font. If you can do a version in all caps and one with just the F capitalized that would be much appreciated.
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No problem. Fairly easy since most of the letters are already in the Held logo.

If you like this, PM your e-mail, I'll send you a file:

freedom.jpg
 
-Maverick- said:
Excellent, I think it looks great. She's picky however. Can you do it all in uppercase caps?

The guy formerly known as Mladin.
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Since it is a logo the type will be all custom lettering.

You can go here DaFont - Download fonts
and choose one of the font categories and enter some text to preview how it will look.
Like this
Some fonts may only be Uppercase with no Lowercase to match vice versa...etc.

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sburns said:
Since it is a logo the type will be all custom lettering.

You can go here DaFont - Download fonts
and choose one of the font categories and enter some text to preview how it will look.
Like this
Some fonts may only be Uppercase with no Lowercase to match vice versa...etc.

View attachment 54738
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Done. She mixed it up a bit to make it bolder as it's going on the waist stretch panel and might not be seen if it's a thin font. Thanks for your help.

The guy formerly known as Mladin.
 
This is extremely serendipitous. I was about to start a thread almost like this.
The Squeeze named our RV Seemore - a play on Seymour, presumably from Litle Shop of Horrors.
I came up with a variation on a font where the first 2 "e"s have pupils added to make them look like eyes. We want to get vinyl cut graphics for the sides and I was about to enquire as to how to modify a font as well as what kind of file. I could create a jpeg from my 15 year old copy of Solid Works but that seems wrong on lots of levels.
 
timtune said:
This is extremely serendipitous. I was about to start a thread almost like this.
The Squeeze named our RV Seemore - a play on Seymour, presumably from Litle Shop of Horrors.
I came up with a variation on a font where the first 2 "e"s have pupils added to make them look like eyes. We want to get vinyl cut graphics for the sides and I was about to enquire as to how to modify a font as well as what kind of file. I could create a jpeg from my 15 year old copy of Solid Works but that seems wrong on lots of levels.
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A legit copy of solidworks? Ball'r. I've had very little time with it as it's so damned expensive.
 
timtune said:
This is extremely serendipitous. I was about to start a thread almost like this.
The Squeeze named our RV Seemore - a play on Seymour, presumably from Litle Shop of Horrors.
I came up with a variation on a font where the first 2 "e"s have pupils added to make them look like eyes. We want to get vinyl cut graphics for the sides and I was about to enquire as to how to modify a font as well as what kind of file. I could create a jpeg from my 15 year old copy of Solid Works but that seems wrong on lots of levels.
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I would ask your vinyl cutter contractor what kind of file they would prefer. If SW can output a high resolution bitmap (jpeg) like 300 ppi it might be acceptable for them. If SW can output a vector EPS file this most likely would be better.
 
No info on Fonts, but at 5'11" I understand your wife's predicament. I used a mens 54 Dianese suit for years as it was the closest fitting thing off the rack. Now that I have custom it's so much better. I can focus on riding, not on how much the suit squishes my chest (which is not large) making it a pain to breath while having loose forearms.
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