Fonts used by WHM?

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by Zoti Media Group, Jan 24, 2016.

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    Hello guys, anyone any idea what fonts are used for the WHM (cPanel) Logo?

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    Thank you!
     
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    denis bayly Well-Known Member

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    Hi there Zoti Media Group,

    I have that font, already prepared for web usage.

    Unfortunately, the folder containing the fonts,
    CSS and HTML files is to large to upload.

    All is not lost though, as you may download it here...

    http://www.mediafire.com/download/01q05mc1c20b616/ZotiMediaGroup.zip​

    coothead
     
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    Zoti Media Group Notable Member

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    Whats the name of the font please. Will like to download/buy from the official website.
     
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    Hi there Zoti Media Group,

    the font is "skywing bold italic"

    My previous post appears to have had the link stripped,
    so this link to the purchase site may also fail...

    http://www.linotype.com/502986/sky-wing-family.html​


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    Thank you very much!
     
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    No problem, you're very welcome.

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    Whilst Skywing is SIMILAR, it's not quite the same. You can see it on the H as the bars are square on the top-right edges on the WHM logo. The radius on the last bar of the M also reaches the middle bar, while skywing's M doesn't even come close being about half that. Many of the spurs are wrong too.

    Go here:
    http://www.linotype.com/501323/sky-wing-bold-italic-product.html

    ... and type in "WHM" as your sample text, you can see it's close, but it's definitely NOT what they used.

    I wouldn't be surprised if they used skywing as a starting point and modified it by hand. A LOT of company logo's aren't made with fonts which is why you rarely ever see them as vector, only as images. Dealt with that about a decade ago at a place where all of their logo's were hand drawn using the same "style", and I had to come up with a way to make a unified font file out of it from some 20 years of legacy products. Came down to picking and choosing which versions to honor and which existing product logo's to honor and which to reject as every graphic artist along the way made minor changes that nobody outside of typography would even notice.

    Laugh on that project was there were three or four other fonts that people claimed were the same that to my eyes weren't even CLOSE... when most of the time talking with typography types I get ragged on for saying that most of the webfonts people use just look like really crappy rendering versions of Arial. (see fugly-ass garbage like "opensans" or "roboto" from google webfonts -- gah!)

    In any case, you may end up having to fire up something like inkscape or illustrator, and try to mimic the style for other letters if you want to make something similar, or to vectorize it if all you want is the logo as vector. You might even want to consider spinning your own font. If you can handle a normal vector program, most font creators aren't too hard to grasp. I like High-Logic's font creator, it's well worth the price...

    ... and with the rise of webfonts being able to make fonts is a handy skill that's increasingly in demand.
     
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