New Font

[Drewsch]

Does anybody know where someone could get the new Iowa State font? I've been looking for awhile and haven't found it. It's so cool!
I think its like a tweaked Agency FB or something.

 

[dustinal]

I'm pretty sure it's a proprietary font that the athletic department created. I don't think it's available to the general public, but I could be wrong.

 

[huntt26]

I've been wondering about this as well.

 

[thunderdave]

I'm pretty sure it's a proprietary font that the athletic department created. I don't think it's available to the general public, but I could be wrong.

I'm pretty sure this is true.

 

[tejasclone]

One used to be able to purchase the university font set but the Cyclone font (as it is named) is created and owned by the AD and I don't think you can get your hands on it. And that's too bad, because it is a great font.

 

[tim_redd]

They have all the letters and numbers on the original PDF. Surely someone should be able to do something with that.

Maybe I can after lunch.

 

[intrepid27]

May want to check this out:

http://www.cyclones.com//pdf3/91103.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=10700

I'm guesing it is not available to public.

 

[huntt26]

i can try to throw something together but it will take some time

 

[jbhtexas]

Techniques abound on the Interweb for extracting fonts from PDF files. But you will likely only get a subset (since these days mostly only subsets are embedded), and I don't think you will get the font metrics from the PDF file, and will have to generate those somehow.

Then, once you have done all that, you still have a font that you probably aren't supposed to have, and are subject to any repercussions for using said font...

 

[huntt26]

well, i did it quickly and it worked fairly well, but i'm not sure if i should share

 

[cyismydog]

Maybe just PM, as long as you're not selling it, I doubt they're going to care.

 

[jbhtexas]

Maybe just PM, as long as you're not selling it, I doubt they're going to care.

Not so sure about that...if that font starts showing up in public somehow (unauthorized use), I think they might not be too happy.