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(x) Thin stressed geometric sans in Another Magazine - Fashion Thin (proprietary face) {Mike F}
Posted by rakai in
26 Jun 2006 — 2:50pm
26 Jun 2006 — 2:50pm
I'm trying to identify this typeface used in Another Magazine. I have a client who really loves it and is dead keen on using it for her stationary. I have looked all over the place trying to find it ... it has me stumped.
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26 Jun 2006 — 4:20pm
A magazine custom font perhaps...
26 Jun 2006 — 4:32pm
It looks really familiar. I tried modifying AvantGarde and got close. It looks like a cross between AvantGarde and a thin version of a sans serif Bodoni... which probably means it's a custom font.
26 Jun 2006 — 4:37pm
WIth a little Optima thrown in - the stresses.
But none of those are it.
Have a look at Intention by T26 - not a match but similar
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/t26/intention/
26 Jun 2006 — 6:22pm
There might be some Peignot in there as well.
- Lex
26 Jun 2006 — 6:24pm
In fact, it might be Peignot Light with a white stroke added.
- Lex
26 Jun 2006 — 7:28pm
Brilliant guess, Lex. I got this via email a few days ago and never even imagined the negative stroke.
26 Jun 2006 — 7:29pm
They are both really close. Peignot Light is very similar. Looking at some of the pages on the Another Mag site, some of the letter forms are different. i have attatched a couple more images showing a few more combos and an example of the lower case.
26 Jun 2006 — 7:54pm
Man, this one got me to dig out really old Letraset sample books. I'm thumbing through the 1980 edition right now, examining faces like Camellia, Fino, Premiere Lightline and a few other "vintage" ultra light faces. Wow, there's actually quite a few faces in there I would like to see revived in digital form (such as Yagi Link Double, Oxford, Magnificat, Company and its later slotted "Transmission" variant).
I'm stumped regarding the sample. But fascinated taking a look through yesteryear sample books. Ah, the days of rub on type. About the only thing I can use my burnishing tool for these days is digging ear wax out of my ears! Sorry for the disgusting image. Hehe.
26 Jun 2006 — 10:30pm
I tried the stroke on Peignot Light and it still had too much contrast, and some of the stroke modulation wasn't the same.
- Lex
26 Jun 2006 — 10:46pm
Sorry to input but the _a_ really bothers me in this example and all the other examples I see where the _d_ is merely the a with an ascender. A girl in my year won a film poster national competition with some free font she downloaded and it had this same awkwardness to it, maybe it's just me though. Can't stand it.
Good luck on finding a match!
26 Jun 2006 — 11:06pm
hey all!
i am actually in the process of working on a project where someone pulled out a reference of this from an old issue of Harpers Bazaar from 1969... and it was this exact typeface. my best guess is that this is 100% custom and that Another Mag just used it as a reference...
i also went straight to my trust old phil's fonts "homage to the alphabet" photolettering bible with no luck. maybe its flying under the radar but i feel like this one's a custom.
26 Jun 2006 — 11:33pm
thanks for all your help with this one. I think i need to go to the drawing board and work on a customised version of this baby.
27 Jun 2006 — 4:19am
Ta-Ke-Shi, from the MyFonts ID Forum, has several times identified this as Fashion Thin, a custom typeface by Alex Wiederin of Buero New York. Use the dropdown menu on the left to choose Typography and you'll see several examples.
27 Jun 2006 — 5:24am
Mike, sometimes I wouldn't know what we'd do without you (stoopid things I guess). :^)
27 Jun 2006 — 7:00am
Wow. thanks. That's it alright.
9 Jun 2009 — 2:50pm
I'm working on something similar.
9 Jun 2009 — 4:31pm
Yours is much nicer, Frank.
9 Jun 2009 — 5:54pm
Lovely, Frode!
See also Eric Sans
10 Jun 2009 — 1:30am
Thank you. I have heaps of work left on it. I hope I'll get around to it some time.
7 Jul 2009 — 11:04pm
look like Penny Bee...
http://e-daylight.jp/design/fonts/revival/penny-bee.html
17 Nov 2009 — 1:38pm
Wow, there’s actually quite a few faces in there I would like to see revived in digital form (such as … Oxford, …)
Oxford came to digital life this year as Sportowy by Ralph M. Unger (Profonts)
1 Apr 2011 — 2:52pm
In this video Wiederin explains that he drew it from scratch, along with other custom fonts for Another Mag. I think he may even be referring to this thread at 5:43.
2 Apr 2011 — 10:18am
Truly enjoyed that from the start, Stephen. Thanks so much for the link!
This is entirely aside from my appreciation of the post but ... I am trying hard to understand how such a flat affect and inspired artistry plus new fatherhood can coexist in the same person. How?
(I am in the medical profession and so know no better description than "flat affect". What is meant, though, is an almost bored, emotionless demeanor.)
27 Jul 2011 — 3:34am
Wow Frode that's one beautiful typeface. Is it out yet?
Thx Stephen coles for pointing me to this thread.
27 Jul 2011 — 3:46am
fontcorn: No not quite yet, but contact me offline will you?