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oh boy, Gill Sans is

innovati — Sun, 18 May 2008 09:22:51 -0700

oh boy, Gill Sans is EVERYWHERE.

Twinning’s tea package has it (oh those british)
the BBC’s logo (again, british)

See Gill Sans was created in the mid-twenties by a british sculptor, Eric Gill. Once you know a little about the typefaces you’re looking for, you can start to find them where you’d expect.

I know the font on the keys of my keyboard is VAG rounded. I don’t know where to find another example of it, but considering it was made for Volkswagen AG, I can imagine Volkswagen would be a good starting point for my research.

Try to ’meet the type’ as though it’s a child of the creator. You know it’s name, but what’s it’s personality, what’s is nationality. Does it have other brothers and sisters? Cousins? What was it derived from.

Best of luck on your little adventure!
innovati!

Thanks to everyone, dr

David R — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:50:26 -0700

Thanks to everyone,

Fedra Serif B is the text

kentlew — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:33:58 -0700

Fedra Serif B is the text face for Great Canadian Film Directors, edited by George Meluyk, published by the University of Alberta Press in 2007.

also: http://typophile.com/no

SuperUltraFabulous — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:54:31 -0700

also:

http://typophile.com/node/45295

Fedra and Fedra Display

SuperUltraFabulous — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:38:12 -0700

Fedra and Fedra Display Serif are used in Modern Painters magazine.
http://www.modernpainters.co.uk/

DIN is used extensively in conjunction with Scala Sans and Serif for info graphics and signage for the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority. “These seats are reserved for elderly or disabled persons”.
www.mta.net

Gill is dominant in Poetry magazine:

Thanks for the feedback, dr

David R — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:27:25 -0700

Thanks for the feedback,

Gill Sans is also used by

eliason — Tue, 13 May 2008 06:00:03 -0700

Gill Sans is also used by Tommy Hilfiger and Sotheby’s.

... anyone else? dr

David R — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:03:05 -0700

... anyone else?

Until just recently, Country

kentlew — Mon, 12 May 2008 05:50:56 -0700

Until just recently, Country Home magazine used Fedra Serif extensively, beginning with Robert Valentine’s redesign, ca. Sept 2004. However, the latest issue I saw seems to have dropped Fedra in favor of Belizio. Don’t know exactly when that change took place.

— K.

Dear everyone, First of all,

David R — Sun, 11 May 2008 14:37:31 -0700

Dear everyone,

First of all, thank you for your fast answers. I did already have some of these, but not all; this was really helpful.

To answer Florian, I will narrow my request down: contemporary, recent works; US and Europe; anything, from outstanding to common. Any Garamond will do, apart from the crappy Monotype.

Again, thanks to everyone... Keep posting.

Museum of Modern Art (NYC)

eliason — Sun, 11 May 2008 12:02:23 -0700

Museum of Modern Art (NYC) for Franklin Gothic
Qwest for Gill Sans
University of St. Thomas for Garamond

Fedra FF DIN Adobe

Stephen Coles — Sun, 11 May 2008 10:55:09 -0700

Fedra
FF DIN
Adobe Jenson
Garamond
FF Meta
Mrs Eaves

The Wikipedia pages for some

sii — Sun, 11 May 2008 10:14:12 -0700

The Wikipedia pages for some of these have usage details, eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gill_Sans_Schoolbook

Hi David, can you narrow

Florian Hardwig — Sun, 11 May 2008 09:59:25 -0700

Hi David,

can you narrow that down please? I find it hard to think of anything typographic that would not be covered by this – well, okay, that was an exaggeration.

Time period: of all times — post WWII — digital era — recent?
Geography/spread: world-wide — US — Europe — local?
Style/Importance: avant-garde/outstanding — idiosyncratic/representative — anything?

Which Garamond?

General clues for finding typefaces in use:
Search typophile.com. Most of the faces you need have been asked for before. Like Meta.

Linotype.com has a pretty neat in use section

Especially if you’re looking for images, searching Flickr (or similar services) has proven helpful, to me. You might try adding ‘font’ or ‘type’ to your query, when searching for short/ambigous terms like ‘Franklin’, ‘Meta’ or ‘DIN’.

Fedra http://www.typotheque.c

poms — Sun, 11 May 2008 09:48:45 -0700

Fedra
http://www.typotheque.com/site/fonts_in_use.php

I need examples of types in use...

David R — Sun, 11 May 2008 09:22:47 -0700

Fellow Typophiles,

I am looking for examples of works (posters, book covers, logos...) done with these types:

- gill sans
- fedra
- din
- franklin gothic
- jenson
- garamond
- meta
- mrs eaves

any help, just a clue, anything which comes off your head will help.

thank you,
dr