If Yves has given up, perhaps it's worth
mentioning that Sui Generis is similar,
especially if it were stretched.

It's not quite right though; the R is different.

There's always the chance that it was drafted by hand. I mean, it is a fairly plain, linear sans...

Just a thought.

Hey, don't get me wrong Yves, I'm still looking for it too.

It's a tricky beggar.

Thank you all for trying...

the sample - from ....?

The sample is from a clothing store in Los Angeles, California, in the US. I recreate logos at work and this one stumped me...

<font class="dontLookLikeCrap">

on page 139 in the thickbrickbook "TYPO -who when why" by Friedl-Ott-Stein
there is a small image of a font called CHINON
(NO.. not cochin!!!!) by Albert Boton

under the image it says Boton 1973 Chinon

so i did a research but i could not find any Chinon


anyway it is not slanted like the NINESTAR image above... and not so boldish... but i got mad for not finding anything more on the web about Chinon...

so this is really something for FontDetectives at Typophile...!

what happened to Chinon?
</font>

Sorry Julia, it looks like no one knows it of the top
of his/her head. We'll keep an eye open for it.

I was not exactly giving up, but nailing this one
might get a bit time-consuming, considering I
may have to do a full run of the FontBook and
some looking-up on a couple of websites.

PS Robin the R is bugging me too.

And thinking I recently got accused of only being
interested in money and refusing to do anything
for free. That hurt... :/

Phew, I'm glad I didn't have to say it this time.
It always sounds a bit like an easy way out.

Yeah, sorry Julia: I did do a run through the FontBook
and I searched MyFonts for "wide sans serifs", but alas,
no luck (yet).