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- From: ulma@coli.uni-sb.de (Ulrich Mayring)
- Newsgroups: comp.fonts
- Subject: Re: What is the font used in NASA logo? Where?
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 09:21:56 +0100
- Organization: Computational Linguistics Dept., U Saarbruecken
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- References: <C1CFtC.ALB@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1993Jan25.051202.1103@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1k11hfINN903@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- urban@sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael P Urban) writes:
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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,
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- After all, you wouldn't want your company to be confused with others,
- who also don't have the momey to hire a professional designer.
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- >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.
-
- Also the designers. After all, it's what they get paid for. I wouldn't
- think that having a brochure describing the way logos are handled and
- fonts are used is very uncommon. Real big companies also hire font
- designers to make a font exclusively for them.
-
- Ulrich Mayring.
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