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Lexus Special, does anybody know the distributor?
Posted by viko in
29 Nov 2006 — 10:34am
29 Nov 2006 — 10:34am
We are trying to track down the distributor for the font "Lexus Special". The original name could be differnet. Please see the attached image. It's Monotype Baskerville with serifs chopped off here and there. None of the big foundries seems to have it. Does anybody know it?
Thanks a lot
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29 Nov 2006 — 10:40am
Where did this sample come from? Is it a bespoke font for the car company Lexus? If so, it's probably not available to the public. More information on where you saw this font would be helpful.
- Lex(us Special)
29 Nov 2006 — 10:43am
I doubt this is a legit custom face for Lexus. It's a messy mess.
29 Nov 2006 — 10:53am
How sad. It looks like someone tortured Baskerville.
29 Nov 2006 — 11:16am
Cute post, Tiffany.
29 Nov 2006 — 11:48am
(Edit:
> looks like someone tortured Baskerville.)
Mrs Eaves, perhaps?
29 Nov 2006 — 1:19pm
A design agency in UK send it to us asking about the distributor, because they themselves don't know where it came from. A typical case of somebody either hacking (torturing) Baskerville or copying it onto the agency's servers.
Unfortunately I don't have more information, that's why I hoped that somebody would recognise it.
I also doubt that it was a custom job for Lexus (car), but who know's...
29 Nov 2006 — 1:34pm
Cursetom design
29 Nov 2006 — 7:41pm
> It looks like someone tortured Baskerville.
Well, pretty much the whole of England tortured him, especially after he died.
hhp
30 Nov 2006 — 12:40am
Design agencies in England are very fond of chopping serifs off here and there and calling it 'design'. (And probably charging a fortune).
Lazy amatuerish crap.
Nick Cooke
30 Nov 2006 — 4:56pm
Where did this sample come from?
The sewers? Put it back there, please.