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Help with these two European newspaper titles: blackletter mastheads of Aftenposten and FAZ - custom
Posted by cky in
24 Jan 2010 — 10:54am
24 Jan 2010 — 10:54am
Greetings type enthusiasts. On a recent trip to Europe I was browsing the newsstands and came across these two lovely typefaces. I thought they were great. I'd like to buy them/download them if possible for my own uses and I was hoping someone out there could help me identify them. Much thanks in advance.
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24 Jan 2010 — 12:07pm
I don’t think that there is an exact match for the masthead of »Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung« (FAZ). You might browse Dieter Steffmann’s collection for a start. For the headlines within the paper, FAZ employed a special version of Fette Gotisch called »FAZ Fraktur« made by URW, which unfortunately is not used anymore since about two years.
24 Jan 2010 — 5:56pm
That's excellent that's for those links. Does anyone have an idea of what the Aftenposten font could be?
25 Jan 2010 — 9:54am
Aftenposten isn’t a font either. Newspaper masthead almost always are custom designed.
I browsed through various blackletter specimen, but couldn’t find anything similar. The round e is pretty special, and so is the A.