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Ff the bea
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24 Feb 2003 — 12:11am
24 Feb 2003 — 12:11am
Could ident this font please.
Thank you very much.
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24 Feb 2003 — 5:22am
Reminds me a tiny bit of the typeface Jeremy Tankard designed for the updated logo of -the now defunct- Sabena Airlines, though that was obviously a very bold version. See in the Design section under Sabena.
BTW The FontFont remark was meant to be a joke, as the chopped off bit of text made for a typical FontFont name: FF TheBea. Maybe a Luc(as) de Groot design, the feminine equivalent to FF TheSans, TheSerif and TheMix?
24 Feb 2003 — 5:23am
Yeah, I know, that's not very funny...
24 Feb 2003 — 1:26pm
well, I don't know the font, but I can name the phrase hinted at here: "Off the beaten path." Which, coincidentally, is what the font in question likely is.
2 Mar 2003 — 12:15am
Linotype calls it Veto, Berthold calls it Evo.
It's close enough to the first sample that I would wager that British Airways magazine commissioned it as a display weight.
I believe the British music mag Q used Evo for a while, too...
3 Mar 2003 — 7:03pm
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/veto/linotype-veto-light/testdrive.html?s=off+the+beaten&p=96
just out of curiosity, why don't you think it is?
3 Mar 2003 — 7:04pm
besides the b
3 Mar 2003 — 7:05pm
and the h
3 Mar 2003 — 11:10pm
It occurred to me that since it was spotted being used by British Airways, it might be a proprietary face used solely by them. Through a little sleuthing I found out that there is a proprietary face that was developed for British Airways called Mylius. The sample seen here isn't close to the font in question, but supposedly there is a sans as well; unfortunately, I couldn't find any more information about the font or any more samples of it.
Caveat: the font was adopted ten years ago (I think); BA may have changed direction since then.
24 Feb 2003 — 4:38am
Hi Yves, thanks for your help.
The Font is released so far. I saw him in the British Airways Magazine
3 Mar 2003 — 3:08am
Thanks for your help.
But i don't think that it is the veto or evo.
3 Mar 2003 — 5:21pm
b
24 Feb 2003 — 1:18am
Thought for a second it was Beta Sans, but nope. This one is rounder. Looks like it could've been something by Hans Reichel.
If I may be so bald (!) to inquire, where did you get that sample from?
Maybe it's an announcement for a new yet-to-be-released FontFont?