A tough Font!! Help?

[Andy D]

This is a first for me, I'm pretty good at finding fonts, and the frustrating thing is it looks so familiar..
It looks like the Z was modified from whatever the other letters font is.
Thanks,
Andy

 

[HDvinyl]

Close to ZiggyStandard

 

[Andy D]

Thanks, but the Ziggy Standard I googled looks a little cartoonish..
Here's the original image I lifted the front from:

 

[sardocs]

That looks like it was laid out by hand to me. The P is slightly imperfect and the A's seem to have different stroke angles.

 

[Andy D]

That looks like it was laid out by hand to me. The P is slightly imperfect and the A's seem to have different stroke angles.

Yeah, I think you're right, I was just told we made this in the Eighties (seems like an incredible lifespan), so
I think we're going old school, hand trace a pattern, spraylat the new face,
X-acto it out, and paint it.....

 

[T_K]

Yeah, I think you're right, I just found out we made this in the Eighties, so
I think we're going old school, hand trace a pattern, spraylat the new face,
X-acto it out, and paint it.....

I don't guess you have a large format scanner to digitize it and make a clean vector? If you going through all the trouble of hand tracing it to recut it anyway, I might offer the customer this service.

 

[Andy D]

I don't guess you have a large format scanner to digitize it and make a clean vector? If you going through all the trouble of hand tracing it to recut it anyway, I might offer the customer this service.

Good point, especially since we are only doing the face that broke, I'm sure we'll be seeing the other side soon.
You can't tell from the picture, but that face is like 6' x 14', so what I would probably do to digitize it is to take a straight on,
close picture of each letter (except the ones that repeated), create line art, and put them back together....
but the other way, I just pass it on to our paint department and don't have to mess with it