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I am trying to mimic the thick stylish font used in cover page of the book : Problems in General Physics by I. E. Irodov

MWE is :

\documentclass[dvipsnames, svgnames]{minimal}
\usepackage{pst-text, pagecolor, xcolor}
\DeclareFixedFont{\RM}{T1}{phv}{b}{n}{3.8cm}

\begin{document}

\pagecolor{Black}
\color{White}

\rput(2.7in,.0in){\pscharpath[fillstyle=solid,fillcolor=magenta!50]{\RM Problems}}
\rput(3in,-1.2in){\pscharpath[fillstyle=solid,fillcolor=magenta!50]{\RM in General}}
\rput(2.15in,-2.5in){\pscharpath[fillstyle=solid,fillcolor=magenta!50]{\RM Physics}}

\end{document}

This produces : Cover Title

But this is pretty far from the original.

Any ideas ??

Thanks

Chandrashekhar Kumar
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  • Welcome! Please don't use minimal for examples. It is absolutely not designed for them. – cfr Jul 21 '17 at 00:25
  • See the LaTeX Font Catalogue if you want a traditional TeX font. You've tagged this xetex, though, so you can use any opentype or truetype font available to you. You've also tagged it tikz-pgf and pstricks. Why?? – cfr Jul 21 '17 at 00:27
  • If you are using XeTeX, you should almost certainly not declare a font like that. You should use fontspec. – cfr Jul 21 '17 at 00:30
  • 70's font... groovy... –  Jul 21 '17 at 00:43

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I uploaded your image to https://www.fontsquirrel.com/matcherator which suggested cooper black which seems to be available on this windows box so..

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{COOPBL.TTF}
\begin{document}
\fontsize{1cm}{1.2cm}\selectfont

\centering

Problems\\
in General\\
Physics

\end{document}
David Carlisle
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  • Nice, although I'm using pdflatex, and it seems that \usepackage{fontspec} is not available. Anyone know an alternative that works for pdflatex? – Jake Levi Jul 17 '23 at 21:32