Typophile - Reagan Airport Type - Comments

Hi James, can you help me to

Bing — Tue, 1 Jul 2008 23:28:36 -0700

Hi James,
can you help me to design some labels for nutritional products? I designed logo, but it is not very good. I will appreciate it if you can help me out. my email: brown652003@hotmail.com
Thanks!

Bing

I quite like that face. ;^)

Bald Condensed — Thu, 7 Feb 2008 14:47:18 -0800

I quite like that face. ;^)

The difference would be that

Mike F — Tue, 5 Feb 2008 04:17:21 -0800

The difference would be that Annonce is available digitally. Very nice find, Yves.

Either that or Annonce

Bald Condensed — Tue, 5 Feb 2008 01:18:19 -0800

Either that or Annonce Grotesque, but the differences between these two are minimal.

Well, Vonness is definitely

Mike F — Tue, 5 Feb 2008 01:10:29 -0800

Well, Vonness is definitely “loosely based ... “. I’m not sure why Scangraphics’ version differs.

From the Photo Typositor Catalog (VGC), 8th Edition:

Scangraphic has a Venus Bold

Stephen Coles — Mon, 4 Feb 2008 19:53:22 -0800

Scangraphic has a Venus Bold Extended with a very funky flared ’S’. And there’s Font Bureau’s Vonness.

I think it’s Venus Extra

Mike F — Mon, 4 Feb 2008 19:44:03 -0800

I think it’s Venus Extra Bold Extended. I know of no digital version, but will try and upload a scan from an old VGC catalog later.

Stephen, i don’t think

zedvox — Mon, 4 Feb 2008 18:55:29 -0800

Stephen,
i don’t think it’s Akzidenz Bold Extended...look at the ‘W’ the prongs are too wide.

Maybe it’s custom from

adnix — Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:29:52 -0800

Maybe it’s custom from back in the day. Reminds me of the old Delta Airlines logo font

David

Unfortunately, FontShop

Stephen Coles — Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:38:43 -0800

Unfortunately, FontShop doesn’t carry Berthold fonts so you can’t test ’er there. But here’s Akzidenz Bold Extended on MyFonts. That could be it.

It’s not AG, which does

Jan — Mon, 4 Feb 2008 14:01:48 -0800

It’s not AG, which does have the angled-ended ‘S’.
@ adnix: Try myfonts.com for type testing or fontshop.com, for Stephen ;-)

Does Akzidenz Grotesk have

adnix — Mon, 4 Feb 2008 13:27:34 -0800

Does Akzidenz Grotesk have an extended cut? Maybe it’s that. EDIT: Yes it does, but I can’t seem to find a type tester on the Berthold site to type “Northwest.”

I think House Industries did a custom font for Dulles, but that’s not the same airport right? Reagan used to be Washington International, right?

David

And there’s Titling Gothic

Stephen Coles — Mon, 4 Feb 2008 10:06:55 -0800

And there’s Titling Gothic Wide which does have a flat-ended ’S’ but whose rounds are more square.

This may be one of the many

Stephen Coles — Mon, 4 Feb 2008 10:03:41 -0800

This may be one of the many predigital Helvetica clones. ITC Blair and Trade Gothic Extended are also similar, albeit with the angled ’S’ ends.

Reagan Airport Type

James Gareth — Mon, 4 Feb 2008 08:38:23 -0800

Hello,

I spotted this on a recent trip to Washington at Reagan airport and was intrigued by the extended “Northwest” type. The flat ends of the S threw me off because initially I thought this was as Aksidenz with the straight leg of the R. Any ideas?