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Old July 2nd, 2005, 03:48 PM   #1
 
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Can you kindly help me to identify which font is used for the Top Gear Logo, please?

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Old July 3rd, 2005, 06:48 PM   #2
 
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I think it is unique designed?!
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love ur avatar pic turturelo... nice little moment from the driver series images/smilies/smile.gif
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The font is Helvetica Neue, at least, thats the one we use on the website.
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thank you so much!

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No problem images/smilies/smile.gif
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So..: Anyone has the font?... I really want it

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Do a search for it on dafont.com

If that site says you got to pay for it...dont bother looking anywhere else cos it'll be the same images/smilies/sad.gif
I'v been looking for the Mercedes font (Corperate A) and they make you pay $50 for it images/smilies/eek.gif
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Hmm...if it's Helvetica Nueue then it must be the heavyweight, black, bold, italic version of it. I don't doubt they use it on the website, but the font in the logo seems different. When I create the menus for the DVDs I record off DTT I use Arial black, bold and italic though, so it could be...
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I have found HUGE groups of commercial fonts on mininova in the past...
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If anybody has it/finds it please post...
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Does anyone have it?
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