Sounds corny but my mom was a personal trainer at this gym in the early 90s, and I want to recreate a shirt/logo for her 50th birthday. I think the gym closed in 96ish, and believe this is prob the last known image/memory of the gym only because I made some dude stop walking so I could take a pic. Is anyone good at reproducing an image from basically nothing?

6/2/2012 8:01:31 AM

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"A common interpretation today is that Atlas was forced to hold the Earth on his shoulders, but Classical art shows Atlas holding the celestial spheres, not a globe; the solidity of the marble globe born by the renowned Farnese Atlas may have aided the conflation, reinforced in the 16th century by the developing usage of atlas to describe a corpus of terrestrial maps."

6/2/2012 8:46:26 AM

Not sure this will work for this particular image, but its free and worth a shot:

http://vectormagic.com/home

It converts jpeg or bitmap images into vector. The advantage with that is you can then scale it without loss of image quality, since you will need something bigger than what you have here for a T-shirt. You will need Photoshop, Illustrator, or some other graphics program to work with it though. I'd start by cropping it down to just the logo though because it will vectorize everything in the image.

6/2/2012 9:06:34 AM

Depending on how much time you have I'd think you could hire any decent graphic artist to reproduce this.

6/2/2012 11:30:37 AM

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"the gym only because I "

huh?

6/2/2012 12:26:06 PM

Do you have a larger version of the pic? Can you upload it somewhere and post a link for download here?

Someone (or me if I can find the time) may be able to open that photo in Illustrator and do a "Live Trace" and get a great starting point for a replication.

6/2/2012 12:54:19 PM

Here's a ridiculously quick example of what can be done with Livetrace. You can adjust the settings etc to make it clearer. The higher res the original the better as well.



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6/2/2012 1:21:43 PM

These guys should know what to do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk

6/3/2012 1:23:28 AM

If you use live trace, just use it on the atlas part of the logo. The rest should be created using type. It'll make things easier with getting the most out of live trace and type is easy to do.

6/3/2012 3:23:01 AM

These tools should help you identify the typeface...
From the image file itself: http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
From a questionnaire about the letters: http://www.identifont.com/

You might want to clean up the shirt or at least crop into it, because I just tried WhatTheFont and got nothing; as for Identifont, I answered the questions and got "Arab Brushstroke" as the most likely typeface for the bottom line: http://www.identifont.com/identify?15.1996+LawrencvilG+20Z+56W+97+9J+PAH+J+1QN+2U+2BS+5P+6X5+6XA+9Z+2E
However, that doesn't quite look like it, although "Cedar Key" looks a bit more like it (still not it, though): http://www.identifont.com/show?JY8

As for the logo text, the Identifont questionnaire didn't come close, but it does look similar to (but not exactly like) Goudy Heavyface; another similar typeface is Cooper Black, but that one has more round-serifs and a noticeable double-barred G, whereas the logo has just a left-facing bar on the G.

If you can't wring a better idea out of these tools, you could send it into the MyFonts Forum; the typefaces look reasonably common, so you should get a quick answer: http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/forum/

6/3/2012 6:45:40 AM

The font on the bottom looks like Jester.

http://www.dafont.com/jester.font?text=Lawrenceville%2C+Ga

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6/3/2012 12:12:11 PM

The lettering could all be hand drawn.

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6/3/2012 1:01:51 PM

It's probably ALL Jester. The text at the top has just been "squished" and warped to fit an arc over the globe.

6/3/2012 1:06:46 PM

It's all clearly NOT jester.

6/3/2012 1:21:57 PM

Oh, haha. My bad. I didnt really pay attention and thought Swingles was saying that "GYM" was Jester.

I didnt even look at the URL they posted.

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6/3/2012 1:27:24 PM

Sorry I forgot to mention I have the fonts, it's Souvenir and Apache. That is the best image of Atlas I have though, which is probably some old crappy Mac clip art.

6/3/2012 5:09:07 PM