20 Dec 2005, 20:05 | #1 |
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Meat Loaf's font
This has probably been asked countless times in the past, but I'll ask again. What's the font called that's used to write Meat Loaf's name on the BOOH, DR and Bat2 covers? Also, does anyone know of a place where it can be downloaded?
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20 Dec 2005, 20:11 | #2 |
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Good question....
I would like to know too |
20 Dec 2005, 20:21 | #3 |
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If memory serves it is a customised font and it is copyrighted so not available for download/public use.
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20 Dec 2005, 20:43 | #4 |
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in germany this font is called "Deutsch Gothic" but it's not completly similar with the Meat Loaf font
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20 Dec 2005, 21:16 | #5 | |
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20 Dec 2005, 21:25 | #6 | |
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If anyone's interested in downloading it for free, go to: http://simplythebest.net/fonts/fonts...ch_gothic.html Pud |
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20 Dec 2005, 22:21 | #7 |
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It's a customised font made by mixing several fonts together.
Apparently :S |
20 Dec 2005, 22:37 | #8 |
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ok, errrm, ive downloaded it. But how do i use it when writing in a word document
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Extract this file to the directory \windows\fonts It should then appear in the fonts list in programs such as Word |
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20 Dec 2005, 22:46 | #10 | |
You dig.
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20 Dec 2005, 22:54 | #11 |
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excellent guys, thank u both
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20 Dec 2005, 23:47 | #12 |
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Cool...
Thats it, thanks guys |
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22 Dec 2005, 11:35 | #14 |
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I hope Meat's rubbing his hands together thinking of all the cash he's going to get from suing you guys for breach of copyright... :)
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22 Dec 2005, 19:47 | #15 | |
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Deutsch Gothic is not a copyrighted font and is not the font Meat uses. It is merely similar. As long as people don;t use it to attempt to pass off goods etc. as being meat's then there can be no case to answer. |
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23 Dec 2005, 15:30 | #16 |
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I think that the typeface that comes closes to the 'old' style of the logo is Bradley Gratis.
The modern version (the post-Bat II type) is the same typeface, at half the width. |
23 Dec 2005, 18:01 | #17 |
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I'm pretty sure there are NO copyright issues for actually using the font - as my local newspaper "The Petersfield Herald" has the same font, but blue. I'll scan a copy when I get one.
Thanks for posting the link to that font, Eeveel. |
06 Jan 2006, 12:58 | #18 |
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The original Meat Loaf writing is not a font but an image. There are similar fonts to the original logo, but they are not the same.
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06 Jan 2006, 18:07 | #19 |
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The 'Bradley Gratis' font is nearly perfectly similar to the Meat Loaf font. If you have to ask me i would say they were the same. Compare them and see. The 'Deatch Gothic' font however hardly even compares to the true Meat Loaf font.
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06 Jan 2006, 19:05 | #20 |
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There is another font which is very similar and you can get it from 1001fonts.com. Search for Becker-Medium. Use an art program like Photoshop to make the words you want, then manipulate it by stretching the letters vertically. You'll find it gets you pretty close without breaching Meat Loaf's own proprietary font copyright.
FWIW :) |