Mystery MTV Style Font

MadAboutType
7.Nov.2006 3.51pm
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Hi guys,

We desperately need help finding this "MTV Generation" font.

Hope it's not too ugly a font to post here!

Thanks for the help,
J

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MTV has a penchant for the bespoke. I'd guess it is custom.


I looked it up: 'bespoke'= Heavily customised or written from scratch to meet the customers requirements.


:^P Eben, you had to look that up? Or, are you making fun of my use of it?


I TOTALLY had to look it up and I am not making even an iota of fun. But I figured if I wasn't sure maybe other people... etc.


I'm such a sucker for that schoolbook naive shadow look and often have to find good reasons not to use it, still haven't got over lo-fi

--N


That looks totally custom/drawn in and scanned.

But I'm sure the interweb has plenty of similarly styled extruded handritten blocky text...

A quick search on myfonts yielded this:

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/chank/brubecks-cube/


Is F Santo Domingo (FUSE 13 - Superstition) good enough for ya?


Thanks, that's brilliant.

We might end up using it for various typesetting jobs so I'd like to get a version with the black fill - but not sure if it's possible. Maybe able to achieve this with Font editing software? Not my area of expertise.

Cheers,
J


Blockhead, from Emigre is similar without the cross-hatching

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/emigre/blockhead/


This is the place to ask for that expertise if you decide you want it.


There's also a similar one called Action Jackson, I believe from Divide By Zero.

- Lex


> I TOTALLY had to look it up and I am not making even an iota of fun. But I figured if I wasn’t sure maybe other people… etc.

Tiff, ditto here. Don't forget there are quite a few non-native speakers visiting Typophile. ;^)

Thanks for looking that up, Eben. :^)


You might also like Hilde Caps by Jeroen Van Der Ham.


But 'bespoke' is being used by a lot of people now. Although I was being a tad sarcastic by using it, I was still serious. (For a change.)

O:^)


I'm a native English speaker, and I didn't know it. But I'm going to use it now!


You must run in a fun crowd Tiff! Cheers.


Maybe one could go so far as to say 'MTV has a penchant for the tawdry'

Dafont.com must singlehandedly supply their in-house team!