In other graphic news, the place I work just got an order from Athens-Clarke County for some t-shirts. They’ve ordered shirts from us before, so presumably we have their logo — but we don’t have it in digital form, just from old silkscreening positives. Decrepit, skewed, very rough silkscreening positives.
One of these images is a scan from that agéd piece of plastic, and one is the file I built from scratch on top of it. After I’d identified the typeface as Goudy Old Style, and was delighted to find that the work computer had it installed, I found that the large “AC” in the center is composed of modified versions of the letters. I was delighted to get to convert the letters to paths and then modify them with the Pen tool to get them to match. I’ve known how to do that, but never really had a reason. It’s not hard, just takes time.
Most of the Athens-Clarke County web sites have terrible low-quality versions of their logo; if anybody from the county wants a non-horrific, completely-vector-scalable version of their logo, call me!
[One again, there’s a flash-based Google Voice widget in this post that shows up on my actual Tumblr page, but not in the Dashboard.]
