Just as in that previous thread I again searched the Sans Guide; and also used Identifont and some MyFonts searching, without any luck. This is not the same font as that earlier thread, as Patty noted, but the odd W is similar. The oblong G and high-crotch M are not so common, so it ought to be a simple enough thing to find, but it must be from an obscure source.
I just found one that I think could be made to look like this lettering by outlning it with a white stroke. If I were trying to match this and running out of time, maybe this is the font I’d use: tdBastard Mono from Typewerk. Maybe add a little bit of squooshing(tm) and I think it might fool you if you weren’t examining them side by side.
I think I’ve had enough of this ’fun’ after going more than 1/3 of the way through the 2400 sans serif fonts in the MyFonts collection.
I came across this a while ago in the AIGA archives, the type caught my eye then. After searching for it again, the blurb states that the typeface used is ’Historic, found type’. I know this doesn’t ID it... but it will probably save everybody searching for a digital version.
Maybe Georg (“Bleisetzer”) has it in his collection of metal types.
The other point to make is that many digital typefaces have their origins in typefaces like this — they are not all original designs, by any means — so it is never a waste of time to check the font libraries. However, I found one that would have been close enough (for me) if I was trying to reproduce this (with some tweaking), so I stopped.
1.Feb.2008 9.36pm
Not sure, but you get a similar feeling from Garage Gothic.
1.Feb.2008 9.43pm
And in another way from SAA Series.
2.Feb.2008 12.25pm
Reminds me a bit of this, which never got ID’d.
http://www.typophile.com/node/21422
2.Feb.2008 4.40pm
(whistles theme from “jeopardy”)
2.Feb.2008 5.42pm
Just as in that previous thread I again searched the Sans Guide; and also used Identifont and some MyFonts searching, without any luck. This is not the same font as that earlier thread, as Patty noted, but the odd W is similar. The oblong G and high-crotch M are not so common, so it ought to be a simple enough thing to find, but it must be from an obscure source.
I’m getting tired of getting stumped.
- Mike Yanega
2.Feb.2008 6.13pm
So far Linefeed by Ray Larabie is the most similar, though the rounded letters are not oblong enough. Still searching..
- Mike Yanega
2.Feb.2008 6.32pm
I just found one that I think could be made to look like this lettering by outlning it with a white stroke. If I were trying to match this and running out of time, maybe this is the font I’d use: tdBastard Mono from Typewerk. Maybe add a little bit of squooshing(tm) and I think it might fool you if you weren’t examining them side by side.
I think I’ve had enough of this ’fun’ after going more than 1/3 of the way through the 2400 sans serif fonts in the MyFonts collection.
- Mike Yanega
2.Feb.2008 6.45pm
I came across this a while ago in the AIGA archives, the type caught my eye then. After searching for it again, the blurb states that the typeface used is ’Historic, found type’. I know this doesn’t ID it... but it will probably save everybody searching for a digital version.
Check out the info:
http://designarchives.aiga.org/?s1=2|s2=1|eid=7745
2.Feb.2008 8.29pm
good sleuthing on that one, charles. and thanks everybody for your suggestions.
3.Feb.2008 7.11am
Maybe Georg (“Bleisetzer”) has it in his collection of metal types.
The other point to make is that many digital typefaces have their origins in typefaces like this — they are not all original designs, by any means — so it is never a waste of time to check the font libraries. However, I found one that would have been close enough (for me) if I was trying to reproduce this (with some tweaking), so I stopped.
- Mike Yanega
4.Feb.2008 3.05am
This reminds me of those license plate fonts...