Heavyweight from Avant Garde mag.
I’ve looked around the usual sites, but my eyes started bleeding after looking at so many pages of the-wrong-typefaces. The black-weight font, “BREAKING OUT:”; name that font in...? Thanks in advance.
I’ve looked around the usual sites, but my eyes started bleeding after looking at so many pages of the-wrong-typefaces. The black-weight font, “BREAKING OUT:”; name that font in...? Thanks in advance.
24.Jan.2008 1.51pm
I think it’s one of the H&FJ fonts, like the heavier weights of Knockout, or Champion Gothic. It will take some test drives to figure which one.
- Mike Yanega
24.Jan.2008 1.52pm
In a few ways it reminds me of Champion Heavyweight with a stroke added. A little squooshed too, vertically I mean.
24.Jan.2008 2.01pm
- Mike Yanega
24.Jan.2008 2.05pm
The closest was Knockout 94, but it wasn’t a match(see below). I don’t know if the added stroke trick would fill this out to match it. I think Stephen has a list of ultrabold fonts. Maybe that would help.
- Mike Yanega
24.Jan.2008 2.15pm
Avant Garde was published in the late ’60s/early ’70s, so this is pre-digital. Good suggestions from Tiffany and Mike, though.
24.Jan.2008 3.14pm
D’oh!
24.Jan.2008 3.34pm
Thanks all. I think Champion is closest; I could mess with it in Fontographer to get it closer to the AG type. Now how do I buy it without having to buy a bunch of other weights I’ll never use??
24.Jan.2008 3.49pm
Consider other fonts, available as single weights, that are similarly based on old wood type, like Smokler:
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ortizlopez/ol-smokler/
or Maple:
http://processtypefoundry.com/typefaces/maple/index.html
24.Jan.2008 6.29pm
Thanks again. I bought OL Smoker and tweaked it in Fontographer (no L/C):