Hi, just my thoughts here; John Beardmore wrote: > The original artwork for this logo seems to be effectively lost. > > http://www.t4sustainability.co.uk/RNC/GaLogoLowResHorz.jpg > > > Only low resolution versions remain in circulation so I'd like to > recreate it in Gimp. Does anybody have any idea what the font might > have been, or want to suggest a reasonable substitute ? > > > Many thanks, J/.
Why would you want to do this in the Gimp ? Normally (in the workflow I know) you'd import the logo as background in a vector drawing program (e.g. Inkscape, Xara or even Krita), then draw outline bezier curves on top of it. This has the benefit of being able to experiment with sizes and colors (most logos are filled with precise spot inks f.x from the pantone palettes) and then export as .gif or .png indexed images (only containing the relevant colors, say from 2 to 12 colors, instead of having 64k colors and a bunch of jpeg artifacts). You could even export .svg vector image for scalable viewing in many browsers. Secondly, you wouldn't even need to know the font (if you manage to draw a convincing outline of the old one) because it's already in outlines. But in your case I'm afraid this would be such an approximation, both finding the font or to draw the letters, 193x54 pixels contain not much detail :( P.S. my linux jpeg viewers hate your jpg image, they become quite unstable when opening it and importing only works in inkscape; there must be an error of some sort in it (format or compression, dunno). Good luck Sveinn ? Felli
