The Revolt of the Black Athlete

swiss dots's picture

ID anyone? Or suggestions on anything close to this. Cheers!

Mark Simonson's picture

It seems like it's derived from Eurostile. As if they just clipped the curves at the corners of some of the letters, or maybe a bit more fiddling. When is it from?

beejay's picture

Heya Mark. This is the cover to a book by Harry Edwards, Revolt of the Black Athlete. Published in 1969.

Tim Ahrens's picture

If you need something similar you should check out Mashine, which I designed as a sort of "angular Eurostile".

Tim Ahrens's picture

Quick comparison:

swiss dots's picture

Thanks Tim. I like Mashine, but it feels a little Russian Constructivist versus the sample. It's for a documentary about the Black Power movement in the late '60s and early '70s, so that's what we're going for.

William Berkson's picture

Looks like United Sans semi-extended black might be your ticket.

pattyfab's picture

I usually don't like that House Industries only sells entire packages but wow you get a lot of bang for your buck with United Sans.

swiss dots's picture

Excellent, thanks 'Philers!

-g

William Berkson's picture

>bang for your buck with United Sans

Yeah, Tal Leming is one of the awesome double-talents in type design, being a programming maven and a very good designer. See also Burbank, where he makes a well crafted animated-cartoon style font and then multiplies it with a dizzying variety of styles. Being able to multiply styles is where being a techno-wizard gives you an edge.

>thanks

You're most welcome!

dezcom's picture

God, I know that face from somewhere in the back of my hazy old fart brain. It must be an old phototypositer face. It isn't quite loose enough to be a FontDiner retro so I don't know if it was ever digitized. It has that industrial look mixed with college letter sweater feel.

ChrisL

dezcom's picture

Christian Schwartz's Oxide might be close. Not quite bold enough though.

http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/fontfont/ff_oxide_solid_pro_bold/

ChrisL

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