Arcade Artwork
Jr. Pac-man overlay reproduction scan
As a sidebar, here is the scanned image of the Jr. Pac-man control panel overlay reproduction that I got in the mail with my sample. Pretty cool, Richard did a really good job in finding someone to make it, and picking the materials (poly carbonate and sealer) to make it feel
Using Pantone book to match Jr. Pac-man colors
Next door to my work is a print shop, so in the morning I went over there with my sample that Richard sent to try to do some color matching. It took a little time, but I feel really confident that I matched the yellow and the pink really close. The blue was pretty hard, and I didn’t find anything that was as exact as I would have liked.
These are the coated spot Pantone colors that I found were exact matches, or as I mentioned, best matches that I have found to this point.;
- Yellow – 109 C
- Pink – 674 C
- Blue – Hexachrome Cyan C
Richard still thinks he has a piece of the sideart from a Jr. Pac that he restored, so he is still going to look this weekend to try to find that to match the final two colors. Otherwise, I suggested having him get some hardware store paint chips and finding those closest matches, then send those out to me and I can compare those chips with the Pantone color book.
Got NOS strip of Jr. Pac-man artwork in mail
In the mail today I got my package. Inside I found the strip from the bottom of the NOS Jr. Pac-man kickplate that Richard had promised, lustrous and colorful like it was brand new. He also sent me some sort of Control Panel overlay, possibly from a Jr. Pac-man conversion? I have seen them mostly on the Pac-man cabinet conversion, it only goes on top and doesn’t curve around the beveled edge of the whole cpanel, but it is really freaking sweet either way. I am going to try to scan it in so I have it digitally and very flat. Thanks a ton Richard!
Closest Professor Pac-man font = ITC Grizzly
In continuing to try to find the right font used in the Professor Pac-man control panel overlay instructions, today I found a font that looks like it could be very similar to the “ITC Grizzly”. It’s just called “Grizzly BT” and looks like it is an Adobe Postscript font, file names Grizzlyn.afm, .pfb, and .pfm.
I can’t seem to get the font to work on my font management software on Windows Vista Ultimate. I tried to set it up downstairs on XP, and it worked fine, it even came up in Illustrator as “ITC Grizzly”, so I know I have the right font. It appears to line up just fine with the text on the Professor Pac control panel, there will have to be some leading and kerning of course, and there is some small differences in different letters, like the “s”, but it will work as a great base, and save me a ton of time.
Professor Pac-man font identification
Took a look again tonight at the fonts that I discovered were possibilities for the text on the control panel. The first option that seemed to be the closest was “ITC Grizzly”. The font had some of the character characteristics, but I can’t tell if it is from the photo or not, but the fine points seemed to be a little more rounded. I can’t seem to find a version right now, I am going to check at work tomorrow and see if I have it there, otherwise I may just have to trace all the letters.
Jr. Pac-man artwork piece in the mail
Got the word today that Richard sent out the sample of the kick plate Jr. Pac-man artwork in the mail. He was looking for another piece of artwork, the sideart, that would give me a sample of the blue ghost color but didn’t have any luck. But he said that he sent me another little surprise in the package, so I am pretty geeked about that too.
Professor Pac-man Logo
Today I started a section on this arcade game blog about all my vectorization progress on Professor Pac-man artwork. I asked Richard F. if he could send me photos of the lower half of the Professor Pac-man control panel (CPO) so I could reproduce that, as well as an image of the marquee, two more important pieces to remake.
Spent some time on the phone tonight, so I multi tasked and traced the Professor Pac logo to use it on the website. It is good either way to have at least one piece of the Professor Pac-man marquee in vector format. I may end up finishing it someday either way.
