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You can also use ’1980s’

bowfinpw — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:14:19 -0700

You can also use ’1980s’ in the search window at sites like MyFonts and FontShop. Some results seem questionable (at first glance), but many are correct, even if some typefaces were renamed to avoid revival copyright issues.

Another place to look would be the ever-popular Phil’s Photo book “Homage to the Alphabet” from 1985. Those are film types, but many have been digitized.

- Mike Yanega

Neville Brody’s typefaces.

Jan — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:38:07 -0700

Neville Brody’s typefaces.

@SuperUltraFabulous: Sinaloa

Mark Simonson — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:49:20 -0700

@SuperUltraFabulous: Sinaloa & Stop

Hmm. Those seem more Seventies to me.

Sinaloa & Stop

SuperUltraFabulous — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:03:40 -0700

Sinaloa & Stop

Futura Extra Bold Condensed,

Miss Tiffany — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:31:59 -0700

Futura Extra Bold Condensed, tightly spaced.

Kind of depends on the

Mark Simonson — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:15:03 -0700

Kind of depends on the context, but here are some I recall being popular (some more unique to the Eighties than others):

Van Dijk
ITC Garamond
Univers Condensed
Onyx
The LaserWriter 35
Century Old Style
ITC Franklin
Crillee
Bernhard Modern
Benguiat
Enviro
Transmission
Scanner
Frankfurter
Freestyle Script
Radiant
Corvinus Skyline
Neville Brody’s Adobe fonts
Early Emigre fonts
Bodoni
Early Adobe release (ITC Baskerville, Futura, Trump Medaeval, etc.)
ITC Fenice
Palatino
Goudy Old Style

and.. here!

cesarkohl — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:09:41 -0700

and.. here!

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/08/80-beautiful-fonts-typefaces-...

sorry the 80 joke lol.. but maybe some of them is an ’eighty’!

and.. here!

cesarkohl — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:09:00 -0700

and.. here!

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/08/80-beautiful-fonts-typefaces-...

sorry the 80 joke lol.. but maybe some of them is an ’eighty’!

Take a look

cesarkohl — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:06:42 -0700

Take a look here!

http://www.typophile.com/node/10318

Hope it helps!

1980s fonts

ahleman — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:13:28 -0700

Greetings all. A friend of mine is working on a design project meant to bring to mind the 1980s, and has asked me for some font recommendations. He recognizes an ’80s font when he sees one, but he can’t remember font names to save his life. When I think of ’80s typography, the first thing that comes to mind is Remedy. Arquitectura and Lithos, though technically ’90s fonts, also make me think of the Reagan administration. Does anyone have any recommendations I can pass on? He’d really appreciate it.

AHL