Mac font woes...

taff posted this at 00:46 — 20th April 2004.

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Does anyone know of a PC equivalent to the Mac font "Textile"? Apparently, this is a fairly common fornt for the Mac but I can't find a PC match that even comes close.

Specifically, I'm trying to match the font in this logo:

http://www.sitesunseen.com/clients/ekm/index.html

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Suzanne posted this at 01:20 — 20th April 2004.

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most mac fonts are available as .ttf -- I think I got Textile from Corel.

taff posted this at 02:06 — 20th April 2004.

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Suzanne wrote: most mac fonts are available as .ttf -- I think I got Textile from Corel.

You have a PC version of Textile? Are you sure about that? I've been unable to track it down anywhere. Anything I've found lists it as a Mac only font.

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Suzanne posted this at 17:56 — 20th April 2004.

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I run all mac, but I can't seem to find it now. Maybe it's on the other computer. Hmmm. So a PC can't use a Type1 font?

taff posted this at 22:20 — 20th April 2004.

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I have seen Mac fonts for PC on occasion, Helvetica and the like, but I think that they are converted over to a Windows format on a font by font basis. All I got when I tried to buy Textile though myfonts.com (which is where I identified it) was the following:

http://www.myfonts.com/PurchaseOptions?familyid=1742&id[]=3325

Thanks for trying though.

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Suzanne posted this at 22:33 — 20th April 2004.

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my goodness. only if you buy a mac? lol... okay.

Greg K posted this at 11:53 — 21st April 2004.

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As a quick fix for just a few chracters (ie to recreate a logo already in use), you could use the "Test Drive" section of hte myfonts.com site. Although their drop down limits you to a size of 72, in the URL you can manually change the size (ie. http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/apple/textile/textile/testdrive.html?s=Hello&p=200 ) Depending on chracters and size, you may have to merge one or two images together.

-Greg

taff posted this at 10:29 — 22nd April 2004.

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Greg K wrote: As a quick fix for just a few chracters (ie to recreate a logo already in use), you could use the "Test Drive" section of hte myfonts.com site. Although their drop down limits you to a size of 72, in the URL you can manually change the size (ie. http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/apple/textile/textile/testdrive.html?s=Hello&p=200 ) Depending on chracters and size, you may have to merge one or two images together.

-Greg

I actually thought of this and played with it a bit - doesn't leave you much leeway in terms of image quality though.

Suzanne wrote: *raises hand as mac owner running Illustrator ostensibly with Textile installed*

Heh, I'm keeping this one in mind

The big problem is that I'd like to use the font for page headings also - perhaps navigation although I doubt it. Although it would be simple enough to sub out their creation, I'm reluctant to get into a situation where I can't do my own tweaking and revisions down the road - not to mention the fact that I didn't budget for any subcontracting in the design fee

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Abhishek Reddy posted this at 13:03 — 21st April 2004.

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Sneaky. But is it permitted/legal?

Greg K posted this at 14:29 — 21st April 2004.

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Well I wouldn't use it on a regular basis or for any type of original work... Myself, I prefer to completely rebuild logo's and such from scratch in a vector based program such as Corel Draw. Takes time, but to me it's my form of entertainment.

One other alternative I forgot to mention earlier: Ask someone who has a mac and that font installed to type in the words you need and save it out in a vector based file, telling it to convert text to curves. Then you don't need the actual font installed, you are working with the curves that make the font.

As for the legal aspect, font files can (and I think most do) have copyright ownerships. Just like everything else like stock photos, clipart (yuck), etc, they should all be used per license.

-Greg

Abhishek Reddy posted this at 15:36 — 21st April 2004.

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Greg K wrote: One other alternative I forgot to mention earlier: Ask someone who has a mac and that font installed to type in the words you need and save it out in a vector based file, telling it to convert text to curves. Then you don't need the actual font installed, you are working with the curves that make the font.

That sounds like a better solution.

Suzanne posted this at 15:44 — 21st April 2004.

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*raises hand as mac owner running Illustrator ostensibly with Textile installed*

tomaine2002 posted this at 22:27 — 25th April 2004.

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I think the PC font "comic" looks a lot like the font used in the logo

tgreyz posted this at 02:58 — 4th May 2004.

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If you didn't notice on myfonts.com textile is made by apple, often times apple does not make pc friendly anything. So most likely you will not be able to find the textile font for a pc. However you may want to use your mac or a friends mac and have them type what you need into adobe illustrator and convert type to outlines. That way it will create an image out of the type. Hope this helps, good luck.