Linder Posted September 8, 2006 Report Posted September 8, 2006 From the Need Some Design Help thread, would any of these programs mentioned help with this project? http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?s=&...st&p=114539 http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?s=&...st&p=114544
rmcsherry Posted September 8, 2006 Report Posted September 8, 2006 Illustrator CS2 has those kinds of things built in, but they're not that effective. I had a quick search and couldn't find anything, but usually when I need a logo in vector format that's difficult to find, it's possible to search in Google for a pdf that contains Cartier in the title (for example). Often companies use press releases / brochures that have a vector logo for printing, so you may be able to find one that has this style Cartier logo? In Acrobat, zoom in on the logo and if it's a vector, the lines remain sharp - then save it to your computer, open it in Illustrator and copy over the logo and you're done. That's the easy part, it's finding the pdf in the first place that takes the time!
Linder Posted September 8, 2006 Report Posted September 8, 2006 Google was not aware of any PDFs on cartier.com and looking through all the PDFs that mentioned Santos on richemont.com did not yield anything useful. Except for this: press.office@richemont.com Who is in a position to contact Richemont directly and request some PDF press releases?
archibald Posted September 8, 2006 Report Posted September 8, 2006 The Cartier font is closest to: Eutheric Expanded Bold Of course they did some moding themeselves on the font but you will be able to get it very close. There's got to be something closer than that...
rmcsherry Posted September 8, 2006 Report Posted September 8, 2006 Google was not aware of any PDFs on cartier.com and looking through all the PDFs that mentioned Santos on richemont.com did not yield anything useful. Except for this: press.office@richemont.com Who is in a position to contact Richemont directly and request some PDF press releases? Even the press releases use the other font for the logo - I found several of them, but all use the script. http://bor.x-cago.com/bmg/20050428/pages/0...28-01039001.pdf Keep looking!
rmcsherry Posted September 8, 2006 Report Posted September 8, 2006 I give up! The closest font on my computer is Bell MT, once it's reproportioned it looks as close as I can get - in Illustrator you can convert it to an outline and modify the points to make it exactly the same as the one Cartier uses. This'll take a while, I'm not sure if I'll get time this week to do it (I don't even like Cartier anyway!!), I'll keep you updated with any progress.
Linder Posted September 8, 2006 Report Posted September 8, 2006 Would parts of this pic help for the roman numerals?
halley Posted September 10, 2006 Author Report Posted September 10, 2006 Thanks to anyone involved, great news to see the project is not dying but I am amazed at how difficult it is, if this project ever comes to an happy ending, the dial will certainly be one of the best ever seen!!! Kudos to all, I'm looking around if I can find a OEM santos dial but no luck so far... Dw is still willing to help on the production of the Cartier Dial if needed.
Pugwash Posted September 10, 2006 Report Posted September 10, 2006 Would parts of this pic help for the roman numerals? Cleaned up: The font is not recognised on What The Font.
Bravo Posted September 10, 2006 Report Posted September 10, 2006 Cleaned up: The font is not recognised on What The Font. ...just wondering why the large image of the rep dial...
Pugwash Posted September 10, 2006 Report Posted September 10, 2006 ...just wondering why the large image of the rep dial... For the roman numerals?
tonton2000 Posted September 10, 2006 Report Posted September 10, 2006 Great work Pugwash! Sadly, the roman numerals are different from the ones on the Santos 100. The ones you cleaned up are from a Dumont (i think) and are not bold enough, and a little too far apart. Can you clean up the wallpaper sized Santos 100 dial i posted earlier in the thread? Maybe that would help.
Linder Posted September 10, 2006 Report Posted September 10, 2006 Yes, the last image I posted was of a gen Santos Dumont.. dang.
archibald Posted September 12, 2006 Report Posted September 12, 2006 Pugwash's pic might work--I erased the "cartier" from the pic and sent it to an artist who's been working with me on another project along w/ a pic of the gen dial. I asked him to see if he could turn P.'s pic into an .ai file of the genuine, minus the fonts. No word from him yet. He works for a print shop, so there's no way he'll be able to do the "cartier" for us, but at least he'll be able to tell us whether the numerals in Pugwash's file can be manipulated to match the OEM. BTW, If he can do so, it will cost $68, which I will gladly pay as long as someone else agrees to work on the "C-a-r-t-i-e-r" font.
tonton2000 Posted September 13, 2006 Report Posted September 13, 2006 Pugwash's pic might work--I erased the "cartier" from the pic and sent it to an artist who's been working with me on another project along w/ a pic of the gen dial. I asked him to see if he could turn P.'s pic into an .ai file of the genuine, minus the fonts. No word from him yet. He works for a print shop, so there's no way he'll be able to do the "cartier" for us, but at least he'll be able to tell us whether the numerals in Pugwash's file can be manipulated to match the OEM. BTW, If he can do so, it will cost $68, which I will gladly pay as long as someone else agrees to work on the "C-a-r-t-i-e-r" font. But the numerals from Pugs pic are for the Dumont, and are too thin. Unless Your friend is gonna manipulate them to make them bolder and more similar to the santos font, in which case ill just shut my big fat mouth!
Pugwash Posted September 13, 2006 Report Posted September 13, 2006 I'll have a go with a better source soon.
woody Posted September 26, 2006 Report Posted September 26, 2006 Thanks Pug, let's keep this project alive. it sounds so promising! Thanks again for your efforts Pug.
Chronus Posted October 7, 2006 Report Posted October 7, 2006 long-term project but the first time i've looked in. Sounds good
cromodora Posted October 9, 2006 Report Posted October 9, 2006 count me in for a dial...just saw this topic now! Btw...how far have you came with the project?
nmachen Posted October 16, 2006 Report Posted October 16, 2006 Please let me know if theres anything i can do to help this project along. Also, please count me in.
nmachen Posted October 27, 2006 Report Posted October 27, 2006 Any news?? Im gonna cry if this doesnt happen.
archibald Posted October 27, 2006 Report Posted October 27, 2006 Any news?? Im gonna cry if this doesnt happen. We're going to need a decent scan of a gen dial to continue., IMO...
DaveAsXxo Posted May 9, 2007 Report Posted May 9, 2007 Was doing some research about the santos 100 and found this post. Did the project die, any news about it? thanks
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