Saul Bass lettering

Solt's picture

does anybody know of typefaces that look similar to what Bass did for Anatomy Of A Murder or The Man With The Golden Arm?


jazzhustler's picture

'Hitchcock' font is similar to 'The Man With The Golden Arm' font, but not the same - go to this site for more info.

http://typographica.org/001110.php

JH

jazzhustler's picture

PS, you might also want to try 'Shag Lounge' by House industries.

http://www.houseind.com/index.php?page=showfont&id=22&subpage=viewfontsp...

JH

Mike F's picture

Henry Hughes created three fonts inspired by Saul Bass's lettering back in 2002. His old website is defunct, but I found them here.

jazzhustler's picture

PPS, there's a font called 'Joey' that's not a bad match for 'Anatomy..', but I can't for the life of me remember where I bought it from.

JH

Solt's picture

thank you! Hitchcock looks nice.
some contextual alternates would make it even better.

karen_h's picture

I'm not certain, though I wouldn't be surprised if it was hand-lettering.
A few years back I had the opportunity to repackage the book the "Anatomy of a Murder" movie was based on. At the time, a design with no resemblance to Saul Bass' iconic poster was in place. I pushed to revert back to using Saul Bass's iconic movie poster image on the cover. And when I needed to add the "#1 Bestseller" line I found the font Hatmaker to be the closest match I could find at the time. Not perfect--but a similar feel. (And just for for fun here is the package for the first edition of the book back in 1958)

dezcom's picture

Karen,
Thanks for posting the old cover! It reminds me of my youth and how far we have come in this design business.

ChrisL

Ignacio's picture

For "The Man with The Golden Arm" Look in FontDiner Square Meal and Square Meal Hearty in the County Fair Picnic font set.

http://www.FontDiner.com

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