How can you re-create this apparently simple picture as close as possible?

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Hello dear community,A long time ago I was looking for a cover art for a classical music album, in digital format (png or something like that), but all online pics were kind of mediocre quality. I asked here somehow, and I got completely blown away by the reply of one user that basically told me "why don't you do it yourself?".And I was like... what do you mean? You... you can't do this, hahaha, it's a cover art.Then this guy started to make the background (exact color tone, exact texture, it had like sparkling effects, he made all of it manually, simulated perfectly the effect), found the exact font for all the letters, composed everything and shared the picture. I could not believe it. Simply would have never thought of that as a solution.Anyways, now I want to do the same with an apparently much simpler picture:That's a white background. I want to replicate the letters and design so I can make it way bigger than this. So far I've used a webpage called myfonts to analyze the fonts, top right is PF DIN text universal, the bottom is FF DIN Pro Condensed Bold, and I'm having trouble finding the hr font, really looks like Fuglesans Bold but the h is not really the same, and I am annoyed by that. Also, it's really hard to "guess" the little letter details to match perfectly the original design, like distance between letters, how "bold" they are, what variables in the font changed... Also, I don't know how to make the smiley thing in a correct way.Once composed, how can I link everything together so I can change the image size all together?Thank you!

c.pfaffenbichler · Accepted Answer

I rasterized the orchester word so I could move each letter individually. I was not able to fit the size and space between them, also some letters like the t or h had to be cut.

Ideally I thought "okay, I will create a layer for each letter and then move each to the exact position". Then I tried to cut the t or h but in letter format they wouldn't allow it, so I rasterized them all and worked them like pictures. Do you know any better way? That's the best I could do.

I tried to use the pen tool but it was not working, the curves were not getting 100% correct, you could tell the r was weird... I still haven't managed to do it, I am kind of stuck.

1) Please don’t do that to a Type Layer because that destroys the Type/vector data.

Use the kerning to edit the distances of letters from each other (alt-left arrow and alt-right arrow) or at the very least Type > Convert to Shape, which will create a Shape Layer (a Solid Color Layer with a Vector Mask) in which you can use the Direct Selection Tool (A) to select complete subPathItems by alt-clicking them to move them (if necessary).

2) You may have to get accustomed to working with the Pen Tool.

Like I mentioned earlier: Setting the points at the horizontal and vertical extremes allows to use the shift key to lock the handles to vertical and horizontal direction when dragging them.

c.pfaffenbichler · Answer

I'm having trouble finding the hr font, really looks like Fuglesans Bold but the h is not really the same, and I am annoyed by that.

For two (relatively) simple letters like these it might be best to just recreate them.

In such cases it is useful to use the extreme points of a shape so one can lock the point’s Bezier-handles to horizontal/vertical by pressing the shift-key.

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