What is the font used by Autodesk these days? I refer not to the logo
font but rather to the superlight font that they use for titles and
such.
See it in the green horizontal area of this page:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=613372
Frutiger and Verdana will immediately look like good candidates, but
they differ slightly from the mystery font in the following respects:
1)Unlike both Verdana and Frutiger, the Autodesk "g" is "goggled", not
plain. See the word "Building" here:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=5358925&linkID=1073418
2)Unlike Verdana, stem and body of upper and lowercase "K" touch but
don't intersect. See the word "AutoSketch" here:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=2753027
3) Unlike Frutiger, the lowercase "m", "n", "r", etc. have a slight
corner where subsequent strokes connect to the initial stem. With
Frutiger this is a smooth transition from vertical straight into the
curve of the next stroke. Not so the mystery font - it's more like
Verdana in this respect. See the "m" in the word "systems" here:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=2748014&siteID=123112&wac=IL18077
4)The biggest issue is that neither Frutiger nor Verdana have anything
as lite as the mystery font. They have light versions but it looks
like I need an ultralight/superlight and they don't have one.
5)This is a bonus and is not required to consider the question
answered: Unlike both Verdana and Frutiger, the numbers used by
Autodesk sport ascenders and decenders. This could be a different
font, but if you see a font that meets the above criteria and has this
kind of number, you pretty much know you're home. See the numbers in
the "2005" and "2006" here:
http://estore.autodesk.com/dr/v2/ec_dynamic.main?sp=1&pn=4&sid=25471
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