(x) Design Museum - FF Schulbuch Süd {Jan Erdmann}

wildlife_wilddeath
10.May.2007 6.45am
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Hey everyone, this is my first post, hope you could help me with this...

Just wondering what this typeface used for the DESIGN MUSEUM’s identity is. I thought it could be some form of Din (because of the straight leg of the R) but the S is nothing like any Din, it has much more of an extreme curve.

http://www.designmuseum.org/exhibitions

sorry my terminology is terrible

any suggestions for typefaces of this sort would be a big help too. I’m currently working on typographically illustrating Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell for my project at uni. Im looking for a very clinical looking font that has impact and authority on a page that can also represent the uniformity of life. I’m thinking maybe something mono-linear.

I would love to be able to afford Akkurat, but i am only a student.



Jan
10.May.2007 7.06am
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FF Schulbuch Sued Fett with alternative uppercase i.
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/fontfont/ff-schulbuch/sued-fett/


Stephen Coles
10.May.2007 8.16am
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As featured in Alternatives to Helvetica.


Bald Condensed
10.May.2007 1.22pm
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Since then I found out that the Design Museum uses DM Schulbuch, a custom version of FF Schulbuch, which is why there are a couple of differences as Jan pointed out.