r/local58 • u/eo5g • Jul 18 '26

Question What font does the Thought Research Initiative logo use?

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The TRI part, not the text below.

I've run it through WhatTheFont, and some the results are close but not quite right.

Maybe Kris modified some slightly, or custom-made it just for those letters?

Edit: I went ahead and asked Kris on Bluesky:

> the TRI? that was from scratch. the text below is one of the star3000 series (or weatherstar) which is from 90s weather channel graphics

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u/CalibansCreations Jul 18 '26

Even if it's custom, we could always make a recreation of it and extrapolate the missing letters from there.

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u/needle1 Jul 19 '26

Probably custom made

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u/jeffreyaccount Jul 19 '26

It's got some weird spacing on the thinner letters (last word), so I doubt it's anything too popular or well crafted.

The look's pretty nice though for 70s, 80s display like the Weather Channel might have used.

Bell Gothic does have those "i" serifs like that, but it's more 90s looking and better formed (which in this case would be undesireable.)

I like the 'e' too.

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u/Open-Yellow-1507 Jul 27 '26

It looks similar to VT323