Typophile - (x) Soviet style posters - Nicotine, Kaiser, Liquorstore {PW (self), Stephen} - Comments

Thank you Stephen.

gravitas — Wed, 9 Apr 2008 19:39:05 -0700

Thank you Stephen.

OBEY THE is Liquorstore

Stephen Coles — Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:48:03 -0700

Okay, someone was able to

gravitas — Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:38:02 -0700

Okay, someone was able to help me with the BASSETT font - it’s a condensed version of Kaiser. That leaves the last bit - “obey the”.

Okay, I just found the What

gravitas — Wed, 9 Apr 2008 17:54:47 -0700

Okay, I just found the What The Font tool ( http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont ), and I was able to identify the “aBESSyNIaN” as Nicotine. So I’m still looking for the two fonts used in OBEY THE BASSETT (which the tool did not provide any meaningful matches for).

(x) Soviet style posters - Nicotine, Kaiser, Liquorstore {PW (self), Stephen}

gravitas — Wed, 9 Apr 2008 17:28:37 -0700

I’ve three fonts that I got curious about, on two posters. The first is used to spell “Abessynian” in the first poster:

http://www.cafepress.com/dogs_of_war/4668414

The others are used for the top two lines in the following, “OBEY THE BASSETT”:

http://www.cafepress.com/dogs_of_war/981540

I’ve a feeling the “OBEY” font may have also been used by Shepard in the original OBEY series, but I couldn’t find an example.

I’ll be most grateful if you can improve my knowledge of fonts a little bit.

Gravitas