Original Manual
My updated vector version
Anyway, I think I got it pretty close. (update below - I later got it 99.9% perfect.)
After researching it for a couple of hours, I believe that this font is a very close cousin to one found on some C64 boxes. It’s not 100% 1:1, but it’s REALLY close.
Of course the ‘f’, ‘y’ and ’s’ are heavily stylized but once I located the font - Kabel Black - it made everything come together a lot faster and easier with only minor adjustments being necessary. (My version needs a few more minor tweaks before I'm calling it done.)
I asked the original designer of the logo, Doug Cotton, and he confirmed that Kabel is indeed the way to go, however he couldn't remember the specific font foundry. He knew it was definitely a postscript type 1 font.
Doug Cotton:
Pretty cool, right? So based on my limited initial research I'm thinking Kabel ITC Type 1 Postscript font is likely a solid bet (I will test this out on a real vintage Macintosh later).Most of the logo design work was done using a combination of ATM Deluxe and Aldus (later Macromedia) Freehand, generally exported as TIFF files.
Artwork and advertising was generally produced in Pagemaker, which was also used for Commodore World magazine.
Manuals were all done in Microsoft Word. [!!!]
The bulk of the font work and publishing was done on Apple Macintosh computers (and clones), starting with a Mac Plus and upgrading over time.
Part of me wishes I'd put that in the video but it felt to be too much of a Side Quest diversion from the overall topic.
(See also: Side Quest 1: The CMD Computer)