Discovery's Teardrop

Re:Discovery's Teardrop by joezydeco on Monday May 26, 2014 @09:40AM (#7799677)

Nice. Now I want a font geek to look into why Discovery's name is done is a nice Helvetica-like typeface but the final "y" has that odd kink at the end of it.

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Re:Discovery's Teardrop by arrrg on Monday May 26, 2014 @01:59PM (#7800780)

That’s just perspective and topology playing tricks on you.

It’s just extremely boring Helvetica. Here’s the shuttle from another perspective (with “Discovery” in Helvetica Bold added for reference): http://i.imgur.com/kRxj2vj.jpg

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Re:Discovery's Teardrop by vinceguidry on Monday May 26, 2014 @06:01PM (#7801860)

Here's another even closer pic.

http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/...

That is definitely not Helvetica. The dead giveaway is the 'e', the crossbar is too high. If my eyes aren't fooling me, the terminators on the 'c' aren't parallel either. If that's not enough, the 'r's terminal is too long.

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Re:Discovery's Teardrop by arrrg on Monday May 26, 2014 @06:07PM (#7801887)

Yeah, your right, it imitates Helvetica but doesn’t seem to be quite it. I wonder why. Maybe there is some mundane explanation, though, since there must be hundreds of Helvetica clones out there.

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Re:Discovery's Teardrop by joezydeco on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @01:35PM (#7805680)

Good picture. It's like it starts with a solid font D-I-S-C and then things get all funny. The V is too thick as well.

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