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- From: urban@sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael P Urban)
- Newsgroups: comp.fonts
- Subject: Re: What is the font used in NASA logo? Where?
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 15:38:23 GMT
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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- References: <C1CFtC.ALB@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1993Jan25.051202.1103@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Reply-To: urban@sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael P Urban)
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- In article <1993Jan25.051202.1103@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> tsines@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (sine path square field) writes:
- >hey, i am pretty sure that the NASA logo was hand drawn.
-
- Yes, I think it is pretty common for logos, which are often corporate
- Trademarks and not, strictly speaking, words, to be one-off designs,
- not actually letters in a font. My own experience in this matter
- comes from having duplicated the TRW corporate logo (you know, the
- slanty letters with holes in 'em) using Knuth's METAFONT. The actual
- official design was a CAD diagram with all sorts of angles, radii, and
- proportions; these were drawings, not letters. METAFONT, by the way,
- handles this sort of thing beautifully. TRW's Office of Corporate
- Identity (I am not making this up, you know...) had a whole brochure
- on the use of the logo, emphasizing that it is a trademark, not a
- word, and so should not be embedded in sentences (I believe they
- prescribed at least a half-inch of empty space around the logo). And
- if color is used, it must be Pantone(r) Warm Red. The lawyers take
- this sort of thing seriously.
-
- Mike Urban
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- urban@cobra.jpl.nasa.gov
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