Rube Burrows Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Does anyone know the font used in the Winchester logo? http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm30/wheeler331/Winchester.jpg I have found some that are close but none that are like this one. If anyone knows can you please let me know? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allie Mo, SASS No. 25217 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Hi Rube, I don't know. However, if you put the one you found that is close in italics, is it the same then? Regards, Allie Mo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rube Burrows Posted September 18, 2011 Author Share Posted September 18, 2011 Hi Rube, I don't know. However, if you put the one you found that is close in italics, is it the same then? Regards, Allie Mo Well the ones that are even close are still pretty different. I have not found any that offer the same "R" as in the Winchester logo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Murphy Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 I have looked it up before and asked a few font experts and the closest they could come up with is Tiffany Medium Italic. As far as I could find there is no exact copy so we ended up making our own letters for the logo we were making by hand. What are you spelling out? We may have made some of the letters. I would be interesting in putting together a font for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rube Burrows Posted September 18, 2011 Author Share Posted September 18, 2011 I have looked it up before and asked a few font experts and the closest they could come up with is Tiffany Medium Italic. As far as I could find there is no exact copy so we ended up making our own letters for the logo we were making by hand. What are you spelling out? We may have made some of the letters. I would be interesting in putting together a font for it. Well, I made a sign for myself using my last name which happens to have all of the letters in the Winchester name except for a "L" which I just converted from an "E" Now I have a couple of friends and my son who would like their name so I was trying to find the other letters of the alphabet. I have been searching for days and cannot find anything. Im guessing that the Winchester artist just drew that up and no one has ever converted a full alphabet font to look like that style. Here is what I did for myself. http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm30/wheeler331/52d8973c.jpg http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm30/wheeler331/9607cfa5.jpg http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm30/wheeler331/a4f26e86.jpg The main letters im looking for now are S, T, A, J and any others I can get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Murphy Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 https://picasaweb.google.com/104114882766564489316/WinchesterFont?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCMjr_Nvrrtq_fQ&feat=directlink A few need tweaking and some REALLY need tweaking, lol. Y,Z still need to be made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olen Rugged Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 Some brand guidelines are located here: They list the fonts as: Copperplate Regular and Copperplate Bold. Olen Try this one: http://logos.fiskars.../winchester.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rube Burrows Posted September 19, 2011 Author Share Posted September 19, 2011 https://picasaweb.google.com/104114882766564489316/WinchesterFont?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCMjr_Nvrrtq_fQ&feat=directlink A few need tweaking and some REALLY need tweaking, lol. Y,Z still need to be made. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rube Burrows Posted September 19, 2011 Author Share Posted September 19, 2011 Some brand guidelines are located here: http://logos.fiskars.../winchester.pdf They list the fonts as: Copperplate Regular and Copperplate Bold. Olen The link does not appear to work. Thanks for the reply though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olen Rugged Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 I edited the link in my earlier post. I believe this will work: http://logos.fiskarsbrands.com/downloads/guidelines/winchester.pdf I think the Winchester "word mark" is a graphic created by the artist. I have dropped the graphic into several font search sites and did not find a match. The copperplate fonts are not even close. I am intrigued enough to continue the search. Maybe something will turn up. Olen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rube Burrows Posted September 19, 2011 Author Share Posted September 19, 2011 I edited the link in my earlier post. I believe this will work: http://logos.fiskarsbrands.com/downloads/guidelines/winchester.pdf I think the Winchester "word mark" is a graphic created by the artist. I have dropped the graphic into several font search sites and did not find a match. The copperplate fonts are not even close. I am intrigued enough to continue the search. Maybe something will turn up. Olen I also think it was an artist created deal. After your post I googled the copperplate and you are right....not even close. I have ran into several people who posed this question on the net.....I would think that a FONT guy would have created it by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Jake1001 Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 I've always called it Winchester "Lightning" logo like this. http://www.cottoneauctions.com/displayItem.php?displayItem_id=964 Just sayin' Big Jake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driftwood Johnson, SASS #38283 Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 Howdy I went through a similar exercise a number of years ago when I wanted to personalize my '73. I took a bunch of photos of the lettering on some old Winchesters, then I sat down to spell out my alias with the same basic lettering style. Nothing absolutely perfect, just a close representation of the Winchester lettering. I did not have any fancy graphic programs on computer then, I just did a lot of scaling on a copier until I got what I wanted. Then I sent it off to one of the cowboy engravers along with a new dust cover. All he did was tape my pattern onto the dust cover and he engraved right through it. In doing so he did not slavishly follow every single detail of my lettering, but it came out pretty good. If I ever want to sell the gun, I still have the original unengraved dust cover to pop back on. Dust Cover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ugly, SASS #18106 Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Try Rattlesnake Jack's web site under fonts; he has a couple of fonts there that are really close to what you're looking for. http://members.memlane.com/gromboug/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullwhip Karl Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Check here first for any logo you may want: Brands of the World. From a jpg image you can use this site to search for a font name: What the Font. I use this to locate the font name from a logo to reproduce. For free fonts that may come close to what you need look here: Urban Fonts. Hope this helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rube Burrows Posted September 23, 2011 Author Share Posted September 23, 2011 Thanks for all of the links. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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