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heavy helvetica lookalike with different lowercase a
Posted by mrjono in
28 Nov 2011 — 8:38am
28 Nov 2011 — 8:38am
Looks like a cheap Chinese copy of helvetica. The a is completely different though.
Thanks
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28 Nov 2011 — 11:07am
I guess it's the latin characters included in a Chinese font.
Chinese fonts do have a little tendency for using "ɑ" instead of "a". For example, the STSong shipped with MacOSX uses Garamond as its latin style, except a special single-story "ɑ".
28 Nov 2011 — 12:11pm
very interesting answer ahyangyi. I'll have a look and see if it's in the glyphs in my copy
29 Nov 2011 — 4:08am
I think it's an entirely different font actually. The shoulders of many of the characters are much less pronounced than in Helvetica. It's almost a hybrid between and geometric sans and a grotesque.
If anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear them.
29 Nov 2011 — 4:41am
with a lot of imagination,
it could be an ITC Avant Garde Gothic Bold Condensed
made even heavier by the designer
29 Nov 2011 — 6:07am
Great spot fvilanakis!
It's not perfect, but if you use AG bold condensed, put a 0.4 stroke around it and stretch is horizontally 130% it's pretty damn close.
So much type crime going on!