Looking for help on this one. Does anyone know what font is used for 'POLICE'? I have used a number of font identifying websites and haven't been able to find the one I'm searching for. Any help would be much appreciated, thank you. It looks like a stencil/sci fi font type but I'm not entirely sure. I hope the image is good enough.

 

It might be a typeface created or modified specifically for that vehicle/purpose.

 

Thankfully it's not an overly complicated type and could be traced if worse comes to worse... I assume you want the "POLICE" text? 

 

I did a perspective crop and a special enlarge method to straighten and boost the size and quality. It requires a white or light background to look its best:

Now a 512x128 power of 2 transparent PNG :)

 

Mask I created:

 

If you trace the mask with a pen tool to create a custom shape, you'll not only have a perfect mask, but also a vector of the mask.

 

You can do the same thing for the text itself, but I don't have the time to do that right now (almost 5am)...

 

For tricky obscure fonts like this, sometimes the only way to replicate is to find the highest possible quality image, and do what I've done above, cut it out, warp it, enlarge it, sharpen it, mask it, and then it might be usable ;)

 

Hope this helps and let me know if you need the PSD or any other questions.

 

Cheers, Jenkins

 

EDIT: Just had another idea for getting better results from Font matchers... Cut the black shadow out of the text, be rough, and don't worry about the inside of the P or the O... The problem might be that the harsh drop shadow is confusing Font matching algo's and it's trying to match shapes WITH the drop shadow, which of course, doesn't exist. Give it a shot, you never know.

Edited January 22, 20188 yr by Jenkins87
Added tip for font matchers