What is this font?

[awemawson]

I'm cnc milling out a new take up spool for my wire eroder, and as the original had the Fanuc logo emblazoned on it I thought I'd try and engrave a replica.

I was going to try and convert this image to an outline as a dxf but it's defeating me - if I can find the font I could just type it in !!

[Swarfing]

Andy 'Liberation Serif' looks exactly the same except the 'F' which you could tweak?

[philf]

Andrew,

I did a bit of coarse manipulation with the image to turn it into a black font on a white background and submitted it to two online font finders.

There wasn't a good match for all characters. The C seems unique.

I suspect it's a FANUC special.

Phil.

[awemawson]

Gosh Phil, I never knew that such things exist! Thanks for trying. Yes I expect that is is a logo that they paid a fortune to have designed. Amusingly that form of the logo doesn't seem to feature on any other Fanuc kit where the lettering is much more plain.

[philf]

Hi Andrew,

Does the attached look OK? I imported your jpeg into Autocad and did a quick trace over. The curves are arcs and not splines so I could make each character into a polyline.

The characters are 10mm high so you could scale them to whatever height you like.

The zip file contains the dxf - I seemingly can't attach a dxf directly.

[Edit: Replaced zip file - a rogue line was removed.]

Phil.

[awemawson]

  Phil you are an absolute hero - very many thanks that's superb