Turn me on to some "tough" looking typefaces!
A current client of mine runs a series of live music venues that for some reason he wants to look tough. Like old western slab serif/big bold sans serifs...that kind of thing. Anything TOUGH. Well after trying Giza and a few others I’m running out of my tough typefaces. Recommend any?
Blackletter is cool too.
15.Feb.2007 2.08pm
Bloc Heavy
PL Barnum Block
Rhode
Maple
Gotharda
Bigticy
FF Brokenscript
15.Feb.2007 2.22pm
ITC Magnifico
15.Feb.2007 2.59pm
Ziggurat
http://www.typography.com/catalog/ziggurat/index.html
15.Feb.2007 3.35pm
ChrisL
15.Feb.2007 9.37pm
Need tough? House United is as tough as they come. Man law!
http://www.houseind.com/index.php?page=showfont&id=531
16.Feb.2007 12.11am
Neil Bold:
http://typophile.com/files/type_0.png
16.Feb.2007 9.00am
or DoubleDagger (alternative for United)
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/flat-it/double-dagger/
16.Feb.2007 1.33pm
>blackletter
Relatively new –
“Kaas”
http://vllg.com/Thirstype/Kaas/mudTyper+Weights/
From the 1930s –
Some of the original “neu-gotischen Schriften”.
Scroll down to “Deutschland” and “Tannenberg”
http://www.romana-hamburg.de/fraktur5.htm
16.Feb.2007 2.12pm
Eagle Bold.
17.Feb.2007 11.01am
Take the real thing:
D.Stempel AG, Frankfurt am Main
Erstguß 1935
Friedrich Heinrichsen
And a poster styled in a kind of ’Leni Riefenstahl’.
Sound from Motörhead.
That’s it.
Georg
17.Feb.2007 12.33pm
That is tough Georg, goodwork! :-)
ChrisL
17.Feb.2007 1.04pm
Hahahaha, Georg. Ich knie nieder. Genial.
International version: LOL
19.Feb.2007 4.36am
Knox is tough:
http://www.typography.com/catalog/knox/index.html
22.Feb.2007 6.48am
Thanks everyone, genius recommendations!
22.Feb.2007 2.47pm
The Shire Types by Jeremy Tankard
http://www.typography.net/type/shires.htm