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(x) bold gothic slab serif - Alfa Sans {Hrant}
Posted by designalchemy in
9 Feb 2002 — 12:13am
9 Feb 2002 — 12:13am
Does anyone know what typeface this is? 
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10 Apr 2002 — 1:52pm
ITC Officina Serif Black OS comes close but not a perfect match.
10 Apr 2002 — 2:01pm
I *think* I know, but I'd rather not say... :-/ Don't worry, it's not a bad thing - just potentially "expensive" information, at least until a few months from now.
hhp
10 Apr 2002 — 4:05pm
Hrant I do not quite get what you mean. If you do not wish to share this information in the forum send me the info privately. Ole
designalchemy@mac.com
11 Apr 2002 — 8:25pm
Not sure what Hrant's going on about...
But I like a challenge - maybe too much.
I've spent far too long staring at this thing
wondering where I've seen it before.
It looks simutaneously like the work of
Tankard, Schwartz, Bilak and Spiekermann.
Stephen
12 Apr 2002 — 12:01am
Hahaha
12 Apr 2002 — 6:15am
I think I saw it used in a design by Jens Gehlhaar. It did however not look like his work, so the question remains, what is it, and who made it?
12 Apr 2002 — 9:35am
Don't like Gelhaar, Ole? Not even this?
12 Apr 2002 — 9:37am
Oops. I misread you. Enjoy the pic anyway.
12 Apr 2002 — 11:12am
I actually consider Gehlhaar one of the best type designers around. I would guess you have seen his thesis project- the CIA comdendium of alphabets.
12 Apr 2002 — 11:35am
Ole, you know too much - now I kave to kill you. ;->
It's Alfa Sans, by Gehlhaar, yes. And it's very nice. And it was used on the cover of the winner of the international "Most Beautiful Book" competition of 2000.
http://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0104&L=typo-l&P=R1336
Gehlhaar and Schulz are the two good type designers to come out of CalArts. Or maybe they were already good when they went in...
hhp
12 Apr 2002 — 1:36pm
OH MY GOD! I want PP Deluxe... What a beauty!
Where do I buy?
12 Apr 2002 — 1:59pm
Richard, as far as I know it is not for sale. It was one in a set of 4. All were very different and named after philosophers.
12 Apr 2002 — 2:10pm
15 Apr 2002 — 12:54pm
Ole - I'd be interested in seeing Gehlhaar's CIA compendium if you have a chance to post it sometime. Or is there a link?
Two faces from Lee Schulz are in Alphabook but I was wondering if anybody had a link to anything else by him or could post something?
Hrant, in your review of Cal Arts's type design class, you mentioned some other faces by Schulz.
Where did you see those?
bj
15 Apr 2002 — 12:56pm
> Where did you see those?
At that exhibition they had in October, and the booklet they gave out with it.
hhp
15 Apr 2002 — 1:04pm
A post or an email would be greatly appreciated.
bj
15 Apr 2002 — 1:10pm
The whole booklet?! :-/
hhp
15 Apr 2002 — 1:14pm
Nah. How about the Lee Schulz faces you refer to in your CalArts review?
bj
15 Apr 2002 — 3:38pm
Hey bj. More Gelhaar:
15 Apr 2002 — 3:44pm
thx scoles. looking at these, i'm a vexed slackdog. are they for sale somewhere?
bj
15 Apr 2002 — 3:57pm
A couple of 150 dpi scans from the booklet:
Salome (one of my "top-10" fonts) and Antoinette, both from '98:
http://www.themicrofoundry.com/other/schulz_1.gif
From Schulz's post-CalArts oeuvre:
http://www.themicrofoundry.com/other/schulz_2.gif
hhp
15 Apr 2002 — 4:00pm
thx hrant.
15 Apr 2002 — 4:22pm
bj,
I believe my samples are scanned from Alphabook.
Got them from someone else. Your question is very
valid... I've thought of tracking down Gelhaar's
email address for some time now so I could write
and ask him why he hasn't offered these beauties
up for sale.
Stephen
18 Apr 2002 — 3:23pm
Hey, shshsheck out Lee Schulz's site:
http://www.jwprojects.com/staff/lee/typographe/v1/home.html
hhp
11 Apr 2002 — 11:34pm
"Tankard, Schwartz, Bilak and Spiekermann" would
make a great name for an intimidating law firm.
12 Apr 2002 — 4:56am
Or a pangram.