Comments on: Logo of the Month #3: Fender

By: Travis Fender

Travis Fender — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:53:02 +0000

The Fender logo was hand drawn. It was designed by the 3 founders of the company, and to my knowledge… there isn’t a font that you can download from the net that matches the logo. But hey, things change every minute.

By: Joe Viscount

Joe Viscount — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:59:00 +0000

I bought a Jazzmaster a while back with a schecter pickguard, controls and pickups. Do you know anything about this conversion? The pickups are sealed and appear about the size of a soap bar pickup. They are chromed and have no poles. I’ve never seen another conversion like this but it sounds great. The body and hardware are 61 but the neck is a bound 66 with rectangular position markers. Any help tracking this down would be greatly appreciated. I can’t quite believe I have the only one.

By: Phillip Benson

Phillip Benson — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:57:49 +0000

I say it should be Gibson instead of Fender cause’, personally, I’m a big fan of Gibson.

By: mike

mike — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 19:42:02 +0000

The fender fonts are Brush regular and other variations of that and I dont have the font but thats what it is

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 03:46:47 +0000

I like the requests for a clean large image. They want to make fake decalas but not have to put in any effort. No no its for a tattoo … LOL

By: Chris Tingom

Chris Tingom — Wed, 23 May 2007 01:50:34 +0000

Sorry Dave, I don’t.

By: Dave Wallace

Dave Wallace — Wed, 23 May 2007 01:28:22 +0000

Hi, Chris – Do you have a big, clean scan of the CFMartin logo that you could send me (like the big version of the Fender logo)? I want to paint it on the outside of my guitar’s road case – but I need a clean copy of it. Everything I can find on the web is fuzzy edged. DW

By: Chris Tingom

Chris Tingom — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:23:40 +0000

I don’t think it’s a font. I think it was probably hand drawn.

By: Erick

Erick — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:22:11 +0000

Does anybody have the font of the Fender logo? I need to make a tracing of a name, for a tatto, it’s like a honour for this great guitar brand.

Tnx!!!

By: Mitchell Anderson

Mitchell Anderson — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 07:44:55 +0000

Does any one know the font used or simmiler to Fender and Gibson ??????? Realy wanna know been look for ages can’t seem to find any trace if u find the font plz email me with the link
regards mitch

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 15:39:17 +0000

Thanks Chris, I’ll be launching a new portfolio site sometime the end of this month hopefully! The current one is seriously out of date. I enjoy brainfuel alot!

By: Chris Tingom

Chris Tingom — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 15:26:10 +0000

Jason, thanks for being a visitor!! I like the sites you’ve done, especially your portfolio site. Cool stuff.

One thing about the Tacoma site that’s really weird is that they have the Holiday theme up already and it’s just November. I saw Santa at Wal-Mart last night so I can vouch for his existence.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 15:20:11 +0000

by the way – Fender also owns Tacoma.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 15:19:16 +0000

Cool! I have been a brainfuel reader for a while now. Cool to see a topic that is close to me being I am a designer and a guitarist that has also done quite a few sites for musical manufactuers. I use to do ESP Guitars website (2004 was last year I did their site) and I did Schecter Guitars 2005 website http://www.schecterguitars.com which has remained pretty close to the original design sans a few bad image sizings in the news section and little things here and there that the client did after the site was turned over to them with admin access. Cool to see all the guitar topics here!

By: beth

beth — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:43:11 +0000

Ah, I knew I was close Doesn’t Martin also own another guitar maker?

By: Dale Cruse

Dale Cruse — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:48:51 +0000

Fender owns Gretsch AND Guild, but not Ovation.

It makes sense to have many of the logos appear like handwriting in order to emphasize the handmade qualities of the instruments. Yamaha is the least handmade and their logo shows.

I do the website for Lakland.com, a bass maker. Their name is a combination of the two founders – Dan LAKin and Hugh mcfarLAND. So many people pronounced the the name like Lackland that they quickly put a symbol over the first A to emphasize the pronunciation. Now it’s just part of the logo!

By: beth

beth — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:05:11 +0000

It’s not surprising so many of these are similar, because these companies are consolidated. Fender owns either Gretsch or Guild, and I think Ovation as well, and Gibson owns Epiphone (not pictured.)

Gibson actually has quite an interesting history, there’s a bit about their recent changes in branding in the new Martha Stewart book. Basically the quality of the company went seriously downhill and they have a new CEO changing things up a lot, and restoring their name.