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Houston Astros - the font before the modification?

AndrewC

Hi Typophiles, been a regular lurker here for a while, and now I actually have a question.

I am looking for an approximation of the very elegant sans serif font that is the basis for the Houston Astros logotype. The font used is obviously NOT a script font like Fenway Park or Sarah Script but a nice sans serif font that has been connected to make a script font effect. Very nice and I think it increases legibility.

Any ideas what the original font that the handlettering is based on might have been? I figure the uppercase A is custom drawn, but the other lowercase letters look very familiar....Hmm....

Jan Erdmann

The whole thing is custom drawn (see the two different s).

AndrewC

Hi Jan,

Yep, it sure is. But the first S looks very familiar and like a standard font from the memory bank. The second s is nowhere near as elegant and looks a little rushed.

Patricia Fabricant

Drawn pretty badly I reckon. Couldn't they have found more elegant ways to connect the letters? Especially the "tr".

Stephen Coles

I'm pretty sure you'd like Radio

Michael Yanega

It's a mixture of script styles, with an s that is normally not connected and and r-style that usually is connected. 'Radio' that Stephen suggested uses the more conventional connected script 's'. This logo was probably designed to be script-like, but a bit more legible, as you suggested. I doubt if it based on any font, except in a vague 'generic' sort of way.

In my opnion it works from a distance, but doesn't look so good on close examination, like the 'Franken-font' it is.

- Mike Yanega

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