OBAMA BAYH 08 ID

auricfuzz
22.Aug.2008 4.22pm
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The Drudge Report is suggesting that Obama’s VP will be Bayh based on a bumper sticker. But the sticker does not to me seem to be using Gotham and Requiem—and Obama’s known for his incredibly consistent brand (just look at his personal jet, styled in Gotham). I can’t quite ID them—it doesn’t seem like Requiem or Perpetua for the serif, though it may be Trajan, and the sans didn’t appear to be Gotham, Gill Sans, or Antique Olive.

Anyone have any ideas/think this bumper sticker is bogus?



EileenB
22.Aug.2008 11.04pm
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It’s definitely bogus. It’s officially Biden according to CNN and MSNBC.


auricfuzz
23.Aug.2008 5.24am
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Thanks, and yes, of course you’re correct, Eileen. I was hoping to do a typographic scoop on the VP race in the vein of Thomas Phinney’s work showing the Bush memos to be fake. Aw, shucks.


eliason
23.Aug.2008 3.21pm
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Here are the correct names on a sticker. Check out the varying widths and clunky letters - looks like a vernacular wood-type evocation. Is this a font?