Chalet is too round. Looks more like a very light Eurostile.

Edit: this is the lightest Eurostile I can find - you'll see the character shapes are similar but not the stroke weight. Maybe it was done by hand.

That's what I was thinking, but I couldn't find a digital Very Light Eurostile. And I'm not oldschool enough to know whether such a thing ever existed.. Of course it could always be a custom design based on Eurostile.

'Monoline', by The Foundry, maybe.?
( Edit.: Noo, sorry, its not.. )

Nah, Monoline is too round, and the f & c don't match.. I think. I hate those tiny samples on foundry sites!

Yea, those samples dont really help..
( Maybe it really is a customized / modified Microgramma / Eurostile.. )

is your sample from a flyer of fabric london?

I wonder how Radix would look in gold with a black stroke added? I don't have the font, so I can't test it myself.

- Lex

Actually, it looks more like Microgramma than Eurostile... check out the extended top of the F, and the dot on the I would likely extend to that length if everything was stretched downward... such slight differences from Eurostile.. the only background I could find on Euro/Micro was that it was designed off of Bank Gothic.... anybody know any history about these?

edit: whoops, kind of already been covered... just trying to expound a bit though.

I think this is custom drawn. It would be very easy, just one round-edeged "blob" cut in different ways and some straight lines.

Very easy to recreate, once you have a "super ellipse" done -- eg the shape formulated by Danish scientist Piet Hein and used by Danish furniture makers to make a table that "is not round nor square" and makes everyone seated around equally important (there being no head of the table, I guess).
And what furniture makers can do, type designers can too...
Just my 2 cts - and a bit off topic, haha.

Bert, have you seen Armchair modern?

Armchair Modern appears to use the basics of the super ellipse. Nice.
There is something wholesome about this shape. Being the son of a carpenter I value the fact that is the maximum of roundness one can obtain with the minimum of waste (talking about shaping a table top, you know).
I remember once reading about a trick one could use to draw this shape properly by using pencil, string and a couple of nails -- but can't remember the particulars of that...

There is a lot of info on this on the Net, eg:
http://www.explainthat.info/su/super-ellipse.html
The bit about the negotiation table for the Paris peace talks is especially illuminating. Seems that Piet Hein did not INVENT it, but REDISCOVERED ist.

When looking around, I read somewhere that Herman Zapf based Melior on the super ellipse. Very probably so.
(Piet Hein was a direct ascendant of the 16th century Dutch naval "hero" Piet Hein. There is a famous young Dutch furniture designer, Piet Hein Eek, whose parents must have a nice sense of humour).

Piet Hein also invented the Soma Cube. I still have the one I got around 1970 when I was a kid.

Feb 2002

How old is that sample?