(x) Looking for a face similar to Blender - various {gang}
does anybody know if the font "blender" by nik thoenen is available for sale in the USA?
it looks like it can be purchased via www.die-gestalten.de, but i would prefer to purchase it domestically.
any ideas? or something very similar?
p.s. this is not the same font as "blender mf" by Eran Bachrach
wish i was at type week : (
MOORE
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18.Jul.2005 11.26am
I just added a scan above... does anybody know of anything similar?
18.Jul.2005 11.30am
Yea, 'Gridnik' ( The Foundry ) seems to have served as the 'Inspiration' for 'Blender'.. Hmm..
18.Jul.2005 12.16pm
have you used this GRIDNIK face before? if so, how is the kerning? can it be used as a text face?
IS IT AVAILABLE ANYWHERE TO PURCHASE AND DOWNLOAD? fontshop, adobe, myfonts.com, linotype doent seem to have it
thanks for your help.
18.Jul.2005 12.37pm
YOU MAY HAVE TO CONTACT THE FOUNDRY, AND PURCHASE IT FROM THEM, FIRSTHAND..
( Ooh, And, I have not used 'Gridnik' myself, yet.. )
18.Jul.2005 1.03pm
We used a similar font as a text face and it was very difficult to use - the layout designers grumbled througout the entire process. Maybe Gridnik works better.
Cheers, Si
18.Jul.2005 2.35pm
what was the face you were using?
i would like to get my hands on this blender face, but it looks like it is being sold for around EUR 200. i dont know what that is in US$ but i am sure it is more than 200.
ouch. i am just a poor type student.
18.Jul.2005 5.14pm
>what was the face you were using?
It was custom.
Si
19.Jul.2005 12.59am
There still is 'Monodon', by Donald Beekman / Cape Arcona, as an alternate..
19.Jul.2005 9.46am
Another alternative to look at is "Mandrax" by Feliciano (myfonts.com), although Blender is much more subtle. Die Gestalten has another face on their website called "Regular" which is a little less expensive, but similar to Blender. Gridnik seems to work surprisingly well for a text face. Phaidon has a series of pocket-sized photography books called "55" which uses Gridnik (I'm pretty sure it's Gridnik anyway). Really nice little books.
20.Jul.2005 12.22am
You also have Lingua from Process
20.Jul.2005 9.13am
I think blender has it's own integrity. I don't know how it would fare in a long text setting but a good deal better than most of the altrenates offered here I bet - gridnik aside.
I wonder if you could get it from Phil's fonts or Font font or Myfonts.com ...
What did you do in the end?