Typophile - Condensed sans on Wangari Maathai "Unbowed" book cover - Comments

This reminds me of those

Marten Fischer — Mon, 4 Feb 2008 03:05:43 -0800

This reminds me of those license plate fonts...

Maybe Georg

bowfinpw — Sun, 3 Feb 2008 07:11:37 -0800

Maybe Georg (“Bleisetzer”) has it in his collection of metal types.

The other point to make is that many digital typefaces have their origins in typefaces like this — they are not all original designs, by any means — so it is never a waste of time to check the font libraries. However, I found one that would have been close enough (for me) if I was trying to reproduce this (with some tweaking), so I stopped.

- Mike Yanega

good sleuthing on that one,

dejongal — Sat, 2 Feb 2008 20:29:52 -0800

good sleuthing on that one, charles. and thanks everybody for your suggestions.

I came across this a while

Charles Grant — Sat, 2 Feb 2008 18:45:01 -0800

I came across this a while ago in the AIGA archives, the type caught my eye then. After searching for it again, the blurb states that the typeface used is ’Historic, found type’. I know this doesn’t ID it... but it will probably save everybody searching for a digital version.

Check out the info:

http://designarchives.aiga.org/?s1=2|s2=1|eid=7745

I just found one that I

bowfinpw — Sat, 2 Feb 2008 18:32:09 -0800

I just found one that I think could be made to look like this lettering by outlning it with a white stroke. If I were trying to match this and running out of time, maybe this is the font I’d use: tdBastard Mono from Typewerk. Maybe add a little bit of squooshing(tm) and I think it might fool you if you weren’t examining them side by side.

I think I’ve had enough of this ’fun’ after going more than 1/3 of the way through the 2400 sans serif fonts in the MyFonts collection.

- Mike Yanega

So far Linefeed by Ray

bowfinpw — Sat, 2 Feb 2008 18:13:21 -0800

So far Linefeed by Ray Larabie is the most similar, though the rounded letters are not oblong enough. Still searching..

- Mike Yanega

Just as in that previous

bowfinpw — Sat, 2 Feb 2008 17:42:31 -0800

Just as in that previous thread I again searched the Sans Guide; and also used Identifont and some MyFonts searching, without any luck. This is not the same font as that earlier thread, as Patty noted, but the odd W is similar. The oblong G and high-crotch M are not so common, so it ought to be a simple enough thing to find, but it must be from an obscure source.

I’m getting tired of getting stumped.

- Mike Yanega

(whistles theme from

dejongal — Sat, 2 Feb 2008 16:40:06 -0800

(whistles theme from “jeopardy”)

Reminds me a bit of this,

pattyfab — Sat, 2 Feb 2008 12:25:33 -0800

Reminds me a bit of this, which never got ID’d.

http://www.typophile.com/node/21422

And in another way from SAA

Stephen Coles — Fri, 1 Feb 2008 21:43:03 -0800

And in another way from SAA Series.

Not sure, but you get a

Stephen Coles — Fri, 1 Feb 2008 21:36:08 -0800

Not sure, but you get a similar feeling from Garage Gothic.

Condensed sans on Wangari Maathai "Unbowed" book cover

dejongal — Fri, 1 Feb 2008 20:46:10 -0800

anyone know what face this might be? it’s from a book cover: