464 and 6128 Vector Drawings

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I remember seeing somewhere that someone had drawn the 464 and 6128 Plus as a vector (black and white line) drawing.  I think it was an Adobe Illustrator creation...

I can't find the these drawings anywhere now on the net - anyone got any ideas where they are?

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They're on Grim's website: http://www.grimware.org/doku.php/documentations/start#amstrad.plus

I was hoping they contained the keys, but unfortunately not.

Anyone got any other traces which do contain the keys?  Or if not, anyone know what font it is on a Plus keyboard?

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These great vector drawings came from antiriad.com but this website seems to be dead now. The zip file attached to this message includes all the original Adobe Illustrator (vector) files I downloaded from this website back then. You can easily add the keys on the Plus drawings if you want to (if you can't open the .ai files, I can make a high-res png version of them).

[Gryzor]

Yes!!! That's the one! Cheers mate...

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Thanks Grim, these are great files.

I wanted to see if anyone had already traced the keys because I want to make stickers and turn my AZERTY keyboard into a QWERTY one.

I'm not that good with graphics programs so was hoping maybe somebody knew the font (or a similar one) used on the Plus keyboard...?

[arnoldemu]

Thanks Grim, these are great files.

I wanted to see if anyone had already traced the keys because I want to make stickers and turn my AZERTY keyboard into a QWERTY one.

I'm not that good with graphics programs so was hoping maybe somebody knew the font (or a similar one) used on the Plus keyboard...?

I guess you could take a photo and use one of those font finding websites.
I found this one with a quick search, but others may be better:

http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

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I guess you could take a photo and use one of those font finding websites.

Never knew these types of websites existed - thanks for the pointer.


Tried it with an image of the Plus keyboard but it didn't come up with anything particularly good.


Then I tried Identifont which attempts to do it by you answering questions.  It suggested the Predicate font which looks like quite a good match for making up key stickers.  Unfortunately it's not a free font though.


I expect that Amstrad used a custom font for the keyboard... 

[arnoldemu]

Never knew these types of websites existed - thanks for the pointer.

Same here until Devilmarkus showed me.

[Gryzor]

Resurrection time!


These drawings are fantastic, but does anyone have the "CPC464" etc. logos in vector format?