@ Dick: Logically, the only way you can stretch or squoosh letters is horizontally. If you want to make letters taller and skinnier, you don't stretch them vertically. You increase the point size and squoosh them horizontally.
The proper terms are "expand" and "condense," not "stretch" and "squoosh," but since "expanded" and "condensed" can refer to other versions created by the designer of the font, I prefer to say "horizontally scaled" when I'm talking about a modification done in a page layout or drawing program.
When I see horizontal scaling carried to an extreme, the term I usually use is "cruelly distorted."
10 Jan 2013 — 6:25am
Looks like Americana stretched to me.
EDIT: Bitstream has an Extra Bold Condensed style.
10 Jan 2013 — 6:25am
Americana, squooshed.
10 Jan 2013 — 11:16am
stretched = squooshed ?
10 Jan 2013 — 11:36am
@ Dick: Logically, the only way you can stretch or squoosh letters is horizontally. If you want to make letters taller and skinnier, you don't stretch them vertically. You increase the point size and squoosh them horizontally.
The proper terms are "expand" and "condense," not "stretch" and "squoosh," but since "expanded" and "condensed" can refer to other versions created by the designer of the font, I prefer to say "horizontally scaled" when I'm talking about a modification done in a page layout or drawing program.
When I see horizontal scaling carried to an extreme, the term I usually use is "cruelly distorted."