(x) Tate & Barbican Gallery fonts - Futura, San Serif Shaded {Adriano S, Lex, Thomas Binder, Mike F}

tomlobo
15.Oct.2007 4.19pm
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used for a tate exhibition:
http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue9/images/title_thereiamnexttome_larg...

the new typeface for the barbican (used in there posters too)
http://www.barbican.org.uk/images/artgallery/logo.gif

also, this one might be hard as my scanner is broken, the font used in the photo bit (at the back in red) of ’Beauty and the book’?

thanks alot



antiuser
15.Oct.2007 4.50pm
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The barbican one is Futura.


Lex Kominek
15.Oct.2007 4.50pm
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“barbican artgallery” is Futura.

- Lex


poms
15.Oct.2007 4.52pm
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>barbican
Futura bold or extrabold oblique

//Edit: hehe, good ole Futura …


tomlobo
15.Oct.2007 4.56pm
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excellent, thanks so much, haha, yeah i though it would be something obvious!


Lex Kominek
15.Oct.2007 5.04pm
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Ultinoid seems to be a grungier version of the first sample. I’m guessing it was originally a Letraset font from back in the day.

- Lex


Mike F
15.Oct.2007 5.35pm
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The first sample uses a version of San Serif Shaded (Wm. Thorowgood, 1839). Dieter Steffmann offers his version and Opti reportedly had a version.


tomlobo
17.Oct.2007 4.41pm
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thanks so much Mike F and everyone else who helped!

xxx