Thursday, January 26, 2012

What font is this (Lady Gaga - Born This Way)?

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What font is it?? It says "Lady Gaga - Born This Way" in case you can't read that lol....thanks in advance! :DWhat font is this (Lady Gaga - Born This Way)?
It is still unlikely to be a "font". Anyone with a bit of artistic skill can duplicate the letters.



Want more proof it isn't a font?

Find someone who is good with Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Open Office Drawing, or one of the other vector drawing programs. Note that OOD is free so you can do this yourself for free if you learn the program. These are just a few of the drawing programs you might use. Remember that every place you see using the "font" has at least one graphic artist or at least a web designer with some graphics skills.



Duplicate each and every letter using Vector Graphics. Note that there is enough of the font style to create your own letters if needed. Some of the letters will require several parts to make a single letter. When you get all the letters duplicated, use a wire frame view or use an empty or no fill. Be sure they are grouped so that you can easily manipulate each letter.



Drag and drop copies of the same letters on top of each other. Re-size letters as needed to allow close comparisons.



None of the A's are the same. Both Y's are different. Both G's appear to be different but I'm not going to say it is definite. If you add the "Daily Gaga" sample, you'll see that they are duplicates of letters in "Lady Gaga Born This Way"



When I worked for a company in the catalog department, it was common practice to duplicate various company logo's. I could whip up a simple letterhead with a company logo in a very short time using what was then Corel Draw 2 and 3 and at the time a hand scanner to get the logo into the computer. While I don't do that for a real job any more, I still do various graphics, logo's and business cards for different people using more recent versions of Corel Draw and lately even Open Office. If you can't guess from the versions, Corel Draw is at version 15 (X5) and I've been doing this about 20 years mostly as a hobby. Sometimes the only good way to duplicate a "font" is to hand draw the letters.



So, while there is a chance that it is a special font, it is more likely a graphical representation of hand drawn letters. My niece, who went to school for graphic arts, could copy the letters the same as I could. To further clutter things, look at Kylie Minogue鈥檚 2 Hearts cover. Again, similarities in the "font" and even the cover photo but the letters here are also clearly drawn. Now you have more letters that are a similar style but don't match.



While I've based my conclusions on my graphics experience, there are also telltale signs that the letters were drawn by hand that wouldn't be duplicated in a font. The slightly enlarged Dot at the top of one Y indicates a magic marker such as a Sharpie was used to draw the letters. To be a font, it would have to have at least 4 different versions and be variable between the versions.



Shadow WolfWhat font is this (Lady Gaga - Born This Way)?
it isn't a font, it's handwriting.



the As are all different, as are the Ys. Which means someone wrote it, so it isn't a font.
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