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Helvetica Black Condensed Oblique

helvetica

Trajan Bold.

Crillee for Warhawks. Copperplate for Louisiana Monroe.

Agency Gothic. I think it was fake italicized, I can't remember if there is a legitimate oblique versionn of the font.

Can't speak for the NASCAR font, but these are not Eras.

Illinois numbers look custom. Closest I've seen it NCAA/Nike Gothic, but it's nowhere near as bold or round. Lettering looks like Helvetica Extra/Ultra Compressed or Univers Ultra/Extra Condensed.

The Lightning McQueen logo looks like it was set in Compacta then modified.

It's custom. Most likely a condensed form of Clarendon. You might want to check out this site for more info: http://www.mlbstyleguides.com

Dom Casual or Balloon

Minor Atom is "Demonized", one of the most overused freeware fonts in anything sports-related.

The closest typeface to Helvetica is Arial. Keep Google-ing, eventually you'll find them.

Helvetica Black Italic

"Charlotte" is Serpentine Bold "Bobcats" looks custom both look italic, although they may have just been obliqued together.

You could convert your shape (or text) to outlines, draw a line across where you want the division line to go, select all, and go to the Pathfinder palette and select "divide" (lower left option). You'd still have to ungroup and do a lot of Direct Selecting (open arrow). The other way involves creating a mask and using the layers palette. Draw a box the width of your text (or shape), make sure your text/shape is the front-most layer, select both, then go to Objects -> Clipping Mask. Your text should be the masking layer, the box should be the shape that is going into the mask (so it's partly viewable). It might sound awkward, but if you need to use the Illustrator Help tools, it should make more sense.

Double check to see if your color formats are the same for both applications. In general, CMYK (for print) flattens colors that are more vibrant in RGB (for monitors/screens). So, if you have a nice vibrant blue in Illustrator, and your document (not necessarily your color itself) is RGB, when you paste it into a CMYK Photoshop document, the color will shift. There are also be subtle little color differences among the same formats (Adobe RGB vs. Apple RGB, etc.), which the user "Pantone" can expand on, if you ask him nicely

Aachen Bold.

The bottom line where it says "WWE Presents" looks like a grungy typewriter font. There are many versions of freeware grungy typewriter fonts. I'm thinking of one called "Schmutz".

"Home Video" looks like a form of Compacta Black that's been horizontally scaled. A lot.

Well, I'm going to have to ask for your assistance. I've been working on it since I did the tutorial (I did better than I thought I would), but here's the best of my attempts. It also includes the base image faded in the background. Give me another year or so and I think I'll have it! Many thanks in advance. Here's another bit of advice: Look for symmetry in the object you're tracing. It will save time, and make sides even (vector-wise), instead of just eyeballing it. Looking at your eagle head (actually, Boston College's eagle ), I can see that with the exception of the top left corner of the eagle's feathers, both sides are basically a mirror image. So, you could draw a guide down the middle of the logo, lining up with the point of the beak. This way, you would only have to concentrate on drawing one half of the logo. Then, once you have that done, use the "flip" tool to duplicate and flip your paths, then select the endpoints, and join. This is just to get the basics down, obviously. One you become comfortable with the "flip" tool, you could work on the specific paths and contours, and then adding the other paths that finish up the rest of the drawing.

Only if the file you're getting the color picker samples from is a vector graphic. If it's a jpg, gif, png, etc (anything but a vector graphic), the colors will be shown as either RGB or CMYK.

I don't know what the font is, but it looks to be the same as the font used for the new Marquette logo and wordmarks. I asked around about it a few weeks ago, and I think it's a custom font. It's a font called "Brothers". I think it's published by Emigre. No, there isn't a freeware or shareware version of it.

You can make multiple strokes on the same object. It's difficult to explain, but it involves the Appearance palette. Draw a box, for example. Give it a fill and a stroke. Now open the Appearance palette. You should have an item called "path", and underneath, two other listings of "Stroke" and "Fill". You can select one of those listings and drag around in that palette, just like the layers palette. It treats each attribute of the object as its own layer. Now, click on the stoke layer so it's highlighted, and click on the icon at the bottom of the palette (right next to the little trash can) that looks like a new layer. It's "Duplicate Selected Item". Exactly as it says, your object now has two strokes of the same weight and color. When each specific item in the appearance palette is selected, you can edit the fill or stroke as you would any fill or stroke, in their own respective palettes. This method also works for stroking text, but through trial and error I've found it a bit clunky.

The wedding script font is called "Spring".