Typophile - (x) What is Boston Ultra ripped off from? - Poster Bodoni {Rainer} - Comments

thanks, poster bodoni it is.

ConorW — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:06:31 -0700

thanks, poster bodoni it is. that copy really is awful and is getting deleted.

The “Boston” fonts are

Uli — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:59:02 -0700

The “Boston” fonts are Poster Bodoni forgeries formerly sold by Weatherly Systems Inc in the USA, and also by Christine Mauerkirchner and Rainer Grunert in Germany, and by other font forging companies.

Open the huge PDF file f31000i.pdf downloadable from my website here

http://www.sanskritweb.net/forgers/#F31000

After opening the PDF, search for “Boston”.

(I intentionally do not mention the complete download link here, because this 30,000 rip-off fonts documentation is downloaded like crazy by freaks in gigabyte quantities.)

Poster Bodoni seems a better

Jan — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:41:23 -0700

Poster Bodoni seems a better match.

Looks like Normande.

Jan — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:38:25 -0700

Looks like Normande.

Try Poster Bodoni …

Renko — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:37:44 -0700

Try Poster Bodoni …

(x) What is Boston Ultra ripped off from? - Poster Bodoni {Rainer}

ConorW — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:28:30 -0700

hiya,

can anyone tell what this originated as. this is called boston ultra, but is so rough that it, i hope, has been badly copied from something else...