New Font

**Drewsch** · 04-08-2009, 11:19 AM

Does anybody know where someone could get the new Iowa State font? I've been looking for awhile and haven't found it. It's so cool!
I think its like a tweaked Agency FB or something.

**dustinal** · 04-08-2009, 11:29 AM

I'm pretty sure it's a proprietary font that the athletic department created. I don't think it's available to the general public, but I could be wrong.

**huntt26** · 04-08-2009, 11:50 AM

I've been wondering about this as well.

**thunderdave** · 04-08-2009, 11:53 AM

Originally Posted by dustinal

I'm pretty sure it's a proprietary font that the athletic department created. I don't think it's available to the general public, but I could be wrong.

I'm pretty sure this is true.

**tejasclone** · 04-08-2009, 11:58 AM

One used to be able to purchase the university font set but the Cyclone font (as it is named) is created and owned by the AD and I don't think you can get your hands on it. And that's too bad, because it is a great font.

**tim_redd** · 04-08-2009, 12:02 PM

They have all the letters and numbers on the original PDF. Surely someone should be able to do something with that.

Maybe I can after lunch.

**intrepid27** · 04-08-2009, 12:03 PM

May want to check this out: [QUOTE]http://www.cyclones.com//pdf3/91103.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=10700

I'm guesing it is not available to public.

**huntt26** · 04-08-2009, 01:29 PM

i can try to throw something together but it will take some time

**jbhtexas** · 04-08-2009, 01:44 PM

Techniques abound on the Interweb for extracting fonts from PDF files. But you will likely only get a subset (since these days mostly only subsets are embedded), and I don't think you will get the font metrics from the PDF file, and will have to generate those somehow.

Then, once you have done all that, you still have a font that you probably aren't supposed to have, and are subject to any repercussions for using said font...