The name of the display type used was “Othello” as listed in Dan Solo’s catalog under Unusual Sans Serifs.

(Note: This is not the “Othello” originally released by Monotype in 1928, as competition to Rudolf Koch’s Neuland typeface.)

I will try to find it’s digital conterpart if I can.

And didn’t Dr. Frankenstein invent digital fonts?
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Stark Bold is similar but without those great angled terminals.

Norbert,

thank you very much for your findings. Stark Bold is close, but it is really those angled terminals that caught my eye. So i am still happy about any suggestions.

Seb

PS> I don’t think that digital fonts are monsters per se - but posters designed in Word that contain 15 different fonts certainly are.

How about Macbeth? It isn’t an exact match either, but it has some angles in it.

Perhaps Dr. Frankestein could put Macbeth’s brain into Stark Bold’s body.
But seriously... there are a myriad of analog type designs begging to be digitized and consider those faces yet to be designed.

Maybe in another 20 years, Tenazas and Vignelli might add one more face to their repertoire. ;)

I could not find any current faces that look like your sample, but I did find more information on the face used in Frankenstein.

Dan Solo’s sample of “Othello” was indeed correct.
Though another typeface named “Othello” from Monotype was released in 1928, Morris Fuller Benton’s “Othello” was released in 1934 by American Type Founders.

Here is the only sample and availability (in hot metal) I could find:
Don Black hot metal faces (scroll down to page bottom)

List of faces by Morris Fuller Benton (scroll down to “O”).

It would make a great revival face since it is still very unique for display. If someone digitized it already, it hasn’t shown up in any sans serif display cuts I’ve searched through (plus it probably isn’t named “Othello” anymore).

Some of the same flavor can be found in PL Fiorello my license from the stone ages has it as CG Fiorello. You’ll have to alter a few characters, but it could be a fun exercise (in patience).

I thought Halloween would be appropriate to bring this thread back from the dead.

Yup, Tiff, PL Fiorello comes very close if you squashed and un-squoooshed the face a litte.

But Fiorello doesn’t have the funky A.

Norbert is Scarry

> But Fiorello doesn’t have the funky A.

True. But his bride is pretty funky.