[Coco] 1980s Tandy-Style Font?

[Joel Ewy]

On 12/27/2010 09:52 PM, Robert Gault wrote:
> Joel Ewy wrote:
>> I'm working on a badge for a CoCo 3 case that I have a Spartan 3
>> CoCo3FPGA in. I want to replace the 128K Color Computer 3 placard with
>> one that says: FPGA CoCo / / / Spartan 3 Edition, or something like
>> that. I plan to print it on a clear label sheet and stick that on a thin
>> sheet of aluminum. I'd like to find a free Truetype font that replicates
>> the Tandy typeface used at that time. I'm aware of Larabie's Crystal
>> Radio Set font, which is really nice, but is more '60s - '70s. I guess
>> it would match a CoCo I. I'll use it if I can't find anything better,
>> but I wondered if anybody on this list knew of something more like the
>> newer Tandy style.
>>
>> I would also like an image of the "oblique triad" -- the slanted R, G, B
>> color bars -- I could reuse. If nobody knows of anything suitable, maybe
>> I'll try to cook one up in Inkscape.
>>
>> JCE
>>
>
> I have a DejaVu Sans Condensed Bold font on my PC that looks very like 
> the text on the Coco3 emblem. I see that you can download a DejaVu 
> font set from
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/dejavu/
> Whether that is the same as the one on my PC I don't know.

That's pretty close.  I guess for this one-time purpose, if I want to 
cut the stylized bevels on some of the letters I could do that manually, 
though I'm not sure if it needs to be done to get the point across...

JCE

>
> -- 
> Coco mailing list
> Coco at maltedmedia.com
> http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
>