Hi all,
I'm vectoring a logo currently and I've ID'd the font as Arena New BQ (medium weight, italic)
However the client doesn't have access to this font anymore and won't pay to replace it.
Essentially I'm looking for a free font that is nearly the exact same. I've offered Lucida Calligraphy Italic, Calisto MT, and Monotype Corsiva from my own licensed fonts, but they weren't satisfied with those choices.
I'm open to all suggestions.

What is the text of that logotype?

"Container Canada" so the capital C would be most important.

Arena New is different of Arena (1951).

Okay, where can I find it? Anywhere I look for Arena it comes up as a sans serif condensed font.

Similar is the Utopia Display Bold Italic. Not free but affordable at € 21,99.
Other option, as you need only 9 characters, is to go to the glyphs page of the Arena New on Myfonts, click on the character you need and copy. You then have a reasonable size and quality image to work with.

© Copyright 2010 Berthold LLC. All Rights Reserved. This font software computer program is the property of Berthold. You may not reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, alter nor create derivative works of the font software.

In short, you may not do something to the software. But what I suggested has nothing at all to do with the software. I suggested to make a copy of an image - which the supplier of that image encourages - and work with that image (digitize it).

Voyons donc !

http://cjoint.com/data/0HctgrlCPqG_c.png

Pas loin.

close too

Thanks all, I ended up using the Glyph method, it took a lot longer but in the end was a much closer match than finding a similar font.

Koeiekat is correct, a font licence strictly applies to the actual font files, outlines are fair game so long as you don't use them to make a new font file which is a replica of the original.

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Only in the USA that was true as the USA for far to long a time did not recognize the copyright on works of art. But ... by digitizing a shape that a supplier has encouraged you to copy is not the same as copying the outline of a letter. It is then a new digital format and a new shape. When turned into a font that new font has nothing to do with the software used to create the shape that was copied as the code is entirely different from that original software.

Had the USA also signed the Berne Convention an age ago the story would have been entirely different. But, a local judge in a small town in the middle of nowhere, over-ruled by some gray suits of the Adobe type, decided - as Jackie once said - that the Helvetica and the Times New Roman have the same letter shapes and thus letter shapes are open game. May his balls rot in hell.