Euro 2012 Italian Jersey Typeface

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HVB
26 Jun 2012 — 6:14pm

The football (soccer) letters by Puma, Nike, and Adidas usually aren't fonts, and don't have names per se. A number of people take the time to create computer fonts from the images available in uniform kits or from images such as the pictures of the jerseys that you've attached.

On the following site, what the site author refers to as 'fonts' are the images that are available upon request (I don't know if he charges for them); they're most often in raster form but sometimes they're vectors.

http://www.switchimageproject.com/2011/11/puma-oh-puma.html

- Herb

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Birdseeding
27 Jun 2012 — 5:43am

In this case it is a font, albeit a custom one. (And one, incidentally, that I think is really attractive and interesting, one of my favourite new designs this year.) It's called Gaffer and is a collaboration between GBH and Dalton Maag. More info here: http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/puma-gaffer-font

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MJMerlino
27 Jun 2012 — 12:02pm

Thank you both so much!

Thanks Birdseeding for finding it :)

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hrant
28 Jun 2012 — 8:50am

The font's concept and execution are indeed highly interesting. But this application is mindless.

hhp

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dsb
28 Jun 2012 — 9:03am

Good point hrant. I am sure there are regulations to the jersey, but this doesn't seem to do anything to push them.

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Birdseeding
28 Jun 2012 — 9:05am

I think it works quite well. It reads surprisingly clearly – compared to the usual compact, all-caps sans it's very legible with its large, open counters.

The fact that it's badly spaced on the shirt is another matter. And I much prefer the flat version to the faux-3D one on the italy shirts.