Pixelboy

Going by the image, Doom definitely looks to be from a hand-drawn sketch, not from a font.

Wilson, I think that is actually Dom Casual Bold, and judging by the image it's vertical scale is 75% or something... unless the image itself is distorted. My earlier guess at DC's font inquiry of Univers Extra Bold Oblique is close, but no cigar on further review. I just noticed the numeral 2 on his other sample, and the lower curve looks more like Helvetica than Univers - unless the designer used Univers for letters and Helvetica for numerals... doubtful. My Univers suggestion would be a reasonable facsimile though.

Sorry Nick, I don't give away company assets for free. Besides, it's a violation of the EULA. There are plenty of cheap OCR fonts available, many for less than 20 bucks. Here's one list: http://www.myfonts.com/search?search%5Btext%5D=OCR

It's probably an OCR-optimized font (optical character recognition) that several foundries make. I have FontFont's OCR-F, which looks like a match.

After playing around a bit, I think I know what it is. It's Univers Extra Black Oblique, with horizontal scale set to 150%, and a Shear transform of 10% applied for a bit more slant than the normal italicization provides.

The Meta font family is made by the FontFonts type foundry. It is quite a remarkably extensive family of weights though, if you go to their website http://www.fontfont.com and do a search. They have a subgroup called Meta + (not Meta Plus), but have no Bold or Book listed under that "+" subgroup; lots of choices for Bold or Book in other subgroups though. Perhaps some other foundry has a font with the same name if that isn't it. FF Meta is a sans serif family. FontFonts have tons of interesting fonts for sale - they, along with T26, have always been a good source of unique fonts for me, especially when I require distressed or grunge fonts. Minion is an Adobe font. I believe that's the body text font they use in all of their manuals.

I'd say that was House Gothic Condensed, with a few manual tweaks - and envelope distortion of course.

In the Scale dialog, make sure the "Scale Strokes and Effects" option box is selected.

I don't have it open in front of me, but I believe what you want is to then select the Expand submenu item from the Live Trace menu. That will give you your anchor points for editing. Or to perform it as one step, instead of using the Make submenu option to create your vectorized image you can use Make and Expand instead.

My virtual invoice is in the virtual mail It certainly can be a tricky thing the first time or two, can't it?

No, use the black arrow tool. Click and drag the text cursor toward the inside of the circle, not around the perimeter. The text will "flip" to the inside of the circle. I just fired up the CS2 version of Illustrator to make sure it works the same as v10 and earlier... the cursor is now a vertical "stick" instead of the old "I-beam", but it works the same.

I'd posted this tutorial in another thread, so here it is again. (Assuming you're working in Illustrator) You actually create the top and bottom text segments as two separate objects, and combine them later. Here's how: 1. Type the upper text on a circle object using the Text on Path tool. 2. Duplicate this object. 3. On the duplicate text object, with the text tool, highlight the text completely. Retype the text to what you want the bottom half to read. Click and drag the text cursor "I-beam" toward the inside of the circle using the solid selection arrow. Your text will flip inside. The selection can be a bit touchy, so keep trying. 4. Drag the cursor around the circle to align the text at the bottom. 5. In the Baseline Shift box of the Character palette, type in a negative number to move your bottom text below the circle. That amount depends on your font size, it's trial and error. Start with a negative number a few points less than the font size and you'll be close. 6. Align your two circle text objects together at the circles' centerpoints. Group 'em.