EdFarmer,

Did you generate the new font yet? If so, I'd love to use it. I was told that Franklin Gothic or Univers fonts are the best simulations of the "Long Time Ago" text, so I'll use those for my fan doc if you haven't finished yours, yet.

For those who wish it could be in vector graphics, I think that if you just (a) make it as a super-large text (like, say, 100-size font), and then (b) select those letters by color, and then (c) turn that selection into a Curve, and lastly (d) turn those curves into the font, that that might be a satisfactory way of turning them into vector graphics.

I'm not sure if that's applicable here, but I've used techniques like that a time or two (I use Gimp, Inkscape, and Blender rather than the Adobe software because it's free and I find the open source community immensely helpful).