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I've been redrawing some decals because I wasn't satisfied with the quality of scans that are available. I asked a friend who formerly worked as a graphic designer about sites to ID fonts. He shot me back the following list:
https://www.myfonts.com/pages/whatthefont
https://www.whatfontis.com/
https://www.fontsquirrel.com/matcherator
https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/using/visual-search-adobe-fonts.html
https://www.fontspring.com/matcherator
So far, I've only needed the first one, and it's worked great. The sites point you to places to buy the font, but I take the name to Google to find a free download of the font. Install the True Type Font .ttf and it lets me generate a perfectly crisp and scaleable image of the logo just by typing. Works in Word and AutoCAD. I'm sure I'll be doing others.
Note: I had to manually futz with the kerning for the Wizard in AutoCAD, making each letter a separate object to get the spacing between them perfect.
The images below are just screen captures from Word. Shaded backgrounds are cropped from available scans. White backgrounds are the typed name in the respective font ID'ed using the site above.
https://www.myfonts.com/pages/whatthefont
https://www.whatfontis.com/
https://www.fontsquirrel.com/matcherator
https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/using/visual-search-adobe-fonts.html
https://www.fontspring.com/matcherator
So far, I've only needed the first one, and it's worked great. The sites point you to places to buy the font, but I take the name to Google to find a free download of the font. Install the True Type Font .ttf and it lets me generate a perfectly crisp and scaleable image of the logo just by typing. Works in Word and AutoCAD. I'm sure I'll be doing others.
Note: I had to manually futz with the kerning for the Wizard in AutoCAD, making each letter a separate object to get the spacing between them perfect.
The images below are just screen captures from Word. Shaded backgrounds are cropped from available scans. White backgrounds are the typed name in the respective font ID'ed using the site above.