Fountainhead Earth: design geek help wanted.

[reddragdiva]

I need to do an image for the Uncyclopedia copy of that last entry. To this end, I need to know what font is used on this book cover. Or if you know what font it's derived from. Thank you.

Update: echo_echo seems to have spotted its nearest ancestor: Helvetica 73 Bold Extended. Now I would be most grateful if someone with a copy to hand could please help me by rendering the capital letters, numbers and colon, about 100 point (since copying the font file itself would be a copyright violation). Or the font file itself if someone has a suitably licensed copy, of course!

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[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

I'm on it...get back to you.

[naughtypixie.livejournal.com]

take a snippet of the title and upload it to what the font and see how you get on. :)

Failing that, there's the fontaddicts community which is helpful (both in asking them and in the resource page.

[naughtypixie.livejournal.com]

er... correcting my l33t URL sk1llz... try www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ :)

[illdrinn.livejournal.com]

http://www.fonts.com/FindFonts/SearchBySight.htm is your friend, and a damn useful tool to keep bookmarked.

[zotz]

Google for stencil font. There seem to be rather a lot of them, though.

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

Looks like it is based heavily on Helvetica 73 Bold Extended with a couple of parts cut out with a horizontal line.

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/neue-helvetica/helvetica-73-bold-extended/?s=Jackdaws+love+my+big+sphinx+of+quartz.+&case=upper

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

Also has the character spacing extended.

[reddragdiva]

*pint*!

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

What do you actually want doing with it? I could knock something up in Photoshop in a few mins if you tell me what you want.

[reddragdiva]

At this stage, the text "FOUNTAINHEAD EARTH: A SAGA OF THE YEAR 1950" "A. YN RAND" rendered suitably large. Then messing about to see what I can do, I think. I have ideas for the photo, but not firm ones.