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Ayreon Font
Posted by DPalmz in
13 Mar 2013 — 3:09pm
13 Mar 2013 — 3:09pm
Hey, so I'm trying to find out what this font is, its used by the band ayreon on their album covers. I would appreciate any help. I asked the main musician behind the band but he wasn't totally sure. He said it was based of old english, but thats the only clue I've got.
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13 Mar 2013 — 4:58pm
Oh one of my favourite albums of all time!
Don't know about the font though :-) If Arjen doesn't know a particular font name, it's either based on any Old English type font and then heavily modified, or it's entirely custom. It's probably not a straightforward font either way.
13 Mar 2013 — 5:53pm
Many similarities - starter design. Many names:
Old English Text MT
Cloister Black BT
Old English EF
Old English Becker
http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/monotype/monotype_old_english_text_std/
13 Mar 2013 — 8:35pm
What's with the 89?
hhp
13 Mar 2013 — 8:48pm
Don't you mean 59?
13 Mar 2013 — 9:41pm
No, 64+16+8+1.
BTW, best shirt ever:
http://a.tgcdn.net/images/products/zoom/binary-people.jpg
hhp
13 Mar 2013 — 9:56pm
Oh ... I was looking at it as the binary code for two octal digits . 0101 = 5, 1001=9 ... And yes, I have that shirt!
13 Mar 2013 — 10:07pm
Octal, eh? Clearly you're
10 timesthe geek I am... ;-)
hhp
14 Mar 2013 — 2:48am
The binary code stands for "Y", but to understand why you'd need to listen to the album.
(edit) .. and several other albums before this one -- it's part of a larger story.
19 Mar 2013 — 2:49pm
Thank you all for the help. Yeah, I would start out with probably Into the Electric Castle to get into the band. Or maybe The Human Equation. Human Equation is the one thats the most powerful emotional wise, but "Y" had some absolutely astounding songs on it. Then again, I like all of his work xD