Since I'm not able to use custom typefaces nor the actual HIMYM logo, what's a good way I can use to recreate the HIMYM logo? The series' logo uses FF Dax, and Century Gothic is the only pre-installed typeface I know I can use as an alternative so far. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
Dax is not a custom typeface.
vinz said 
Yes, I know, but I said that I couldn't use the actual logo for our project. We need to recreate it through pre-installed fonts or something. Thanks anyways.

koeiekat said 
Dax is not a custom typeface.
Oh, thanks for the correction. Anyways, I haven't seen FF Dax pre-installed on the units we're allowed to use, and I'm trying to look for alternatives or other ways to create the logo. I can't download fonts.
Edited on Feb 19, 2016 at 12:54 by deleted user 901040
you want us to guess which fonts are installed on your computer ?

daaams said 
you want us to guess which fonts are installed on your computer ?
Not really, I'm just asking for suggestions for alternatives that are normally installed on most computers. Like for example, Calibri, though that wouldn't really work. Sorry if I wasn't too clear.

Edited 2 times. Last edit on Feb 19, 2016 at 15:03 by deleted user 901040
yeah, but we need to guess :
- what logo you're talking about
- what OS you're using (some fonts are OS specific)
- what software are installed on your computer (some fonts are bundled with software)
i give up, sorry... i'm not a soothsayer
why don't you just try all possibilities by yourself, using the fonts installed on your computer, and see what matches the best with the logo you're talkiing about ?!

It is not clear to me what you are after.
1) You need to make a lookalike with the same text using another font that is already installed on the machine you are working with? Forget it. There are fonts around that have some resemblance with the Dax but those are most certainly not installed on that machine. And never will untill the moment that you buy that machine and can do what you like.
2) You need to make a logo with the same typeface as the HIMYM logo but with a different text. That one is simple. Very simple. Goto myfonts.com. Search for Dax. Type your custom text (in whole or in parts depending on the size you need). Make a screendump. Paste that screendump in your image editor of choice and crop. Make a new image. Copy the parts of the text and paste those in your desired lay-out into that new image. As simple as that.
If the project(?) you were given is as 1), the one(s) who formulated the rules would probably create a project for a standard car with a petrol engine to be driven from Boston to Los Angeles with only the amount of petrol already in the tank. The driver would need to cheat to do that project, right? Like putting the car on a trailer.
Now, if the rules do not say that cheating is prohibited,
cheat. When you get a project like this that has to do with typography, the machine that you have been given to do this will have a font editor program installed. So with some copy/paste and trace make your own Dax lookalike and use that one.

Okay, thanks to all of you, and sorry if I was being vague or anything, hopefully thst won't happen next time. But I've encountered a solution now. Thanks again!

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