Jaysus I thought this would be an open and shut case. It’s certainly not Arial Mono, as Arjun pointed out the leg of R turns vertical, and the X is the same (although it’s not in my sample). Another give-away is the leg on the G. This may well be Sagmeisters own creation as Stephen pointed out. I know for a fact that it this is a fully functioning (possibly upercase only) font as he was using it in a presentation he gave in Dublin about a week ago.
I have to apologise here. This is clearly Lutz Headline or a mod of it. I had been under the impression from a conversation I had with another Typophile member who will remain nameless! That this was not Lutz, I trusted his judgement and didnt bother to check!
Stephen/Jan or whoever, where do you think the letters have been modified?
Closest to Lutz, including all the numbers, with I, R, V from Alpha, J a mix of the two, and G from somewhere else!
I wonder if there’a a clue on the lineto website:
Lutz Headline isn’t exactly a «New Release» - it had been a favourite on the former incarnation of Lineto ever since its inception in 1998. When relaunching in the spring of 2004, the font was pulled from the library, overhauled slightly and is now being re-issued due to popular demand.
Like Alpha Headline, this headline typeface is derived from an anonymous design still in use today for the production of car registration plates in the United Kingdom.
Could it be this original version of Lutz? (It isn’t very similar to UK plates, Alpha in its entirety is much closer).
what’s interesting is that he uses different versions of the same letter in different parts of the book – for example the ’i’ in ’in my life’ is different to the ’i’ in ’stefan sagmeister’, yet the typeface on the whole is the same. One ’i’ has slabs on top and bottom (not sure if that’s the best way of describing it but hopefully you get what I mean) whereas the other doesn’t.
17.Jun.2008 9.14pm
hmmmm...most of the font looks like either
Arial Monospaced Bold
or
F2F OCR Alexczyk
but am totally foxed with the Y. The top edge turns vertical which none of the above fonts do...
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arjun
17.Jun.2008 9.46pm
He has been known to draw his own letters. No reason he couldn’t make his own font. But I think this has come up here before, maybe without an answer.
18.Jun.2008 4.19am
Jaysus I thought this would be an open and shut case. It’s certainly not Arial Mono, as Arjun pointed out the leg of R turns vertical, and the X is the same (although it’s not in my sample). Another give-away is the leg on the G. This may well be Sagmeisters own creation as Stephen pointed out. I know for a fact that it this is a fully functioning (possibly upercase only) font as he was using it in a presentation he gave in Dublin about a week ago.
Somebody must know more...!
Here’s another sample to help:
18.Jun.2008 4.26am
Looks like Lineto’s Lutz Headline with modifications
18.Jun.2008 4.34am
I think Lutz Headline with alternates or modified is what Stephen suggested when this came up before.
18.Jun.2008 6.33am
Its Pretty close to Alpha headline also, minus the S and minus the G also
http://www.lineto.com/The+Fonts/Custom+Typefaces/Alpha+Headline/
18.Jun.2008 6.36am
I have to apologise here. This is clearly Lutz Headline or a mod of it. I had been under the impression from a conversation I had with another Typophile member who will remain nameless! That this was not Lutz, I trusted his judgement and didnt bother to check!
Stephen/Jan or whoever, where do you think the letters have been modified?
18.Jun.2008 7.10am
My guess is a custom font from Mr Windlin.
Closest to Lutz, including all the numbers, with I, R, V from Alpha, J a mix of the two, and G from somewhere else!
I wonder if there’a a clue on the lineto website:
Lutz Headline isn’t exactly a «New Release» - it had been a favourite on the former incarnation of Lineto ever since its inception in 1998. When relaunching in the spring of 2004, the font was pulled from the library, overhauled slightly and is now being re-issued due to popular demand.
Like Alpha Headline, this headline typeface is derived from an anonymous design still in use today for the production of car registration plates in the United Kingdom.
Could it be this original version of Lutz? (It isn’t very similar to UK plates, Alpha in its entirety is much closer).
18.Jun.2008 8.54am
May I suggest a gang of heavily armed (with bananas) typophilers corner him during typecon and hold him hostage until the font name is revealed?
18.Jun.2008 9.33pm
I’m getting very curious now as to what font that might be... I vouch for Sii’s idea!
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arjun
19.Jun.2008 4.56pm
what’s interesting is that he uses different versions of the same letter in different parts of the book – for example the ’i’ in ’in my life’ is different to the ’i’ in ’stefan sagmeister’, yet the typeface on the whole is the same. One ’i’ has slabs on top and bottom (not sure if that’s the best way of describing it but hopefully you get what I mean) whereas the other doesn’t.
19.Jun.2008 7.06pm
Definitely Lutz Headline. That S is distinctive.
21.Jun.2008 4.39am
its the original version of lutz headline,
which has lower and uppercase variants. the
first post (Things I Have Learned…) is the
uppercase.