(x) Skiing Magazine - Reykjavik {Mike Yanega}

dana
8 Oct 2003 — 3:16pm

Looks like good ol' (some might say overused) ITC Officina Sans Bold, to me... but the absence of any other id's from the normally prompt Typophile folk make me suspect that there is a trick here(?)

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cheshiredave
8 Oct 2003 — 3:24pm

It's a very good guess, Dana, but that's not it. Officina Sans isn't quite as square, and one dead giveaway is that the middle of the M here goes down to the baseline, whereas Officina Sans' doesn't. I haven't found the solution myself, and I was looking through the FF site until I got called away to do something else.

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hdschellnack
8 Oct 2003 — 3:27pm

Can be Officina, the small i is all wrong. And the serifs of the Caps-I also look a bit too long. The C is different. It is quite similar in the overall simple and sturdy bureau-look, however, so maybe it's FF Unit? I haven't bought that yet, so I can't say for sure. But Unit has alternate versions, so the mix of very serif-y large I and the straight-no-horizontal-stem-small-i could be made with that. The look+feel of Unit is pretty close, although I'm not sure on the y and so on.

Very hard to tell with these small text-sizes.

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dana
8 Oct 2003 — 3:39pm

I stand corrected... at first the leg of upper case R didn't seem to match either, but when "tested" at smaller size (12 or 16 pt) the difference appeared to small to notice. But, at all sizes, the centre junction of the upper case M is, as Chesh and Tiffany well said, not a match.

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bowfinpw
8 Oct 2003 — 3:40pm

Based mainly on the shape of the C, and the fact that trying to use the Sans ID Guide helped pick this family, I am guessing this is Psy-Ops Reykjavik One. The only other font I know with a similar C is Hamilton from Font Bureau, but the R wasn't right. Finding lower case examples that were clear enough was nearly impossible on that site, so the lower case is the most questionable part of trying to ID this font.

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hdschellnack
8 Oct 2003 — 3:47pm

Hmmm... hey, Rykjavik is a neat font. But I wonder... isn't the big I all wrong, the psycops-typeface doesn't have any stems/serifs. Man, there are so many almost similar fonta out there from so many smaller foundries... it's getting pretty hard to differentiate the stuff. I always admire you folks here for being so adept at identifying the stuff :-D.

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bowfinpw
8 Oct 2003 — 4:08pm

I know you can't prove it from their web site or the .pdf sample they provide, but in the "IndieFonts" book it clearly shows that there are serifs on the u.c. I and J. I still think Reykjavik One is the answer. This link shows the Identifont showing and shows all letters.