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- From: toj8j@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (prufrock)
- Subject: Re: What is the font used in NASA logo? Where?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.193338.7751@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:33:38 GMT
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- chang hsu liu <cliu@silver.ucs.indiana.edu> writes:
- >
- >Is there a site that has the font like NASA logo?
- >
- This probably doesn't answer your question, but two points should be noted:
-
- 1) NASA used to distribute (internally) a Mac Type One
- version of its "worm" logo for use in official
- documents. This was a simple font that had the
- "worm" logo as one of its characters. Unfortunately,
- when I saw it it wasn't to be distributed outside NASA
- at all. However...
-
- 2) Last summer the new administrator of NASA (Michael Golden?)
- reversed a 1970s design change and reinstated the old
- "blue meatball" (a circular seal design) as the official
- NASA logo. The "worm" will disappear gradually as
- various pieces of NASA equipment are repainted, they
- run out of stationery, etc.
-
- Now, does (2) mean that (1)'s condition no longer exists, and we poor
- font hobbyists can get our hands on a copy of the worm logo? Probably not...
-
- To answer your question, there are some family similarities between
- the commercial font family Bauhaus (available from Adobe, among others)
- and the individual letters in the NASA "worm." I have yet to see a share/
- freeware version of Bauhaus, though.
-
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