Typophile - (x) credits on movie posters - Univers Ultra Cond/URW Bee {Iulian Puiu, Tim} - Comments

A new alternative to Univers

Miss Tiffany — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:18:10 -0700

A new alternative to Univers Compressed, which you might like, is TypeTrust’s Heroic Condensed.

New information about the

Mark Simonson — Wed, 23 May 2007 08:23:34 -0700

New information about the “B” fonts: They all originated at Filmotype in the 1950s. Each font had a different name that started with a G—Giant, Gaucho, Grant, Gazette, etc. VGC knocked these off in the 1960s (a common practice at the time) as the “B” fonts. In fact, most (if not all) of the unnamed fonts in VGC’s catalog originated at Filmotype. P-L had similar fonts, but not quite the same design.

FYI: The Filmotype library is being digitized.

Edit: I see that some similar information was provided in this thread: http://www.typophile.com/node/10616

Bee is URW’s name for the

Mark Simonson — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:07:37 -0700

Bee is URW’s name for the old VGC “B” series. These were unnamed fonts that may go back further than Univers, and may have been knock-offs of Photo-Lettering faces. (Unfortunately, it’s difficult to precisely date P-L faces, so I can’t say for sure there was no Univers connection.) VGC had a whole series of fonts that only had a letter-number designation—no name—mostly casual scripts and such, but also sort of generic looking sans serifs, like the B series.

Looks like its been

Dan Weaver — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 04:41:47 -0700

Looks like its been previously discussed once a month here.

Previously discussed here.

Bald Condensed — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 04:13:07 -0700

Previously discussed here.

Let’s be nice and say URW

Bald Condensed — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 04:00:19 -0700

Let’s be nice and say URW Bee is “inspired” by Univers Ultra Condensed, which incidentally is the typeface you’re looking for.

looks like i am 2 minutes

hereandthere — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 03:08:24 -0700

looks like i am 2 minutes too slow!

i belive that the font

hereandthere — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 03:07:37 -0700

i belive that the font customarily used for billing blocks is called Bee.

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/urw/bee/

Also the Bee series

timd — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 03:05:42 -0700

Also the Bee series discussed here
Tim

Hi, I’ve done a poster for

tomita1 — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 01:36:36 -0700

Hi,

I’ve done a poster for a movie recently and the company that takes care of the PR and Communication send me Univers as being the font that is in use at Hollywood for all the informations that are used in the bottom of the poster. So, try Univers (the condensed and compressed versions).

(x) credits on movie posters - Univers Ultra Cond/URW Bee {Iulian Puiu, Tim}

flinhardt — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 01:17:30 -0700

Hi IDs,

looking for the font that is used on almost every movie poster on bottom for movie informations. please see the attached which is cropped from the “war of the worlds” poster.

Thanks. Flo