Dreamcast Fonts?

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  1. Cooleo

    Cooleo Dauntless Member

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    Does anyone know what font is used on the DreamOn/White label disks?
     
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    Cooleo Dauntless Member

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    For personal use yeah, I have ecco the dolphin on white label but I want to use it on my PC, so I grabbed the ISO, was gonna lightscribe a disk with it on. I didn't want to virtualize it.
     
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    Try identifont.com - you answer some questions on how certain characters look and it predicts which fonts it could be.

    I got Frutiger Next which looks quite similar.
     
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    Cooleo Dauntless Member

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    Thanks for that, its Frutiger and the 'on' part is Frutiger STD 75 Black
     
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    Yakumo Pillar of the Community *****

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    Not sure about the white discs but the actual Japanese used Dreamcast logo font is called Hanada or something like that.
     
  7. Cooleo

    Cooleo Dauntless Member

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    Well after a little photoshopping, I came up with this (Using Murphysville disk template):
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    then lightscribed it and it came out as this:
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    Not too shabby :thumbsup:
     
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    Yakumo Pillar of the Community *****

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    wow, you even get an orange tint. I thought those light scribe drives only did tones of grey?
     
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    wombat SEGA!

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    That's just awesome!
    (@Yakumo, I guess the disc already has a kind of 'orange' tint. At least the most litescribe discs I have look the same)
     
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    The disc itself was orange, They come in 5 colours now! :)
     
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    Great job, Ive got a lightscribe writer in my laptop. Just never got around to using it.
     
  12. LeGIt

    LeGIt I'm a cunt or so I'm told :P

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    Ahh the message I got the other day makes more sense now :p Sorry I couldn't be of use this time :( Looking good though :) The only thing I could say though is by the time you had gone through all of the trouble making a GD-R replica you could have got your hands on an actual GD-R to pop in your DC/Set 5.24/whatever to play with hehe but I guess that would defeat the object of your quest. Personally I'm content to let a CD-R look like a CD-R but each to their own :)
     
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    Cooleo Dauntless Member

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    I don't have a GD-R Writer so getting half life on GD-ROM would be a bitch ;)
     
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    Borman Digital Games Curator

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    I like it. Would be useful for disks that I'd like to keep around and look good heh
     
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    I'd think you of all people know better than to monkey with GD-R burning capable hardware... :thumbsup:

    Making labels that people can read vs my chicken scratch is a good thing. However those discs were always a tad bit more expensive that I'd have liked; despite that I've made sure to buy lightscribe capable DVD burners just in case I splurged.
     
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    Cooleo Dauntless Member

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    To be fair, I got these 10 disks for £1.72, which works out at 17p each, so what 4p more expensive then usual? Not too bad
     
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