(x) Geometric text sans w/ low x-height and vertical tail on Q - Vogue {Mark Foster}

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29 Oct 2007 — 7:06am

Hello all.
I'm wondering exactly what typeface this is. It has a lot in common with Futura, but it's an odd variation on the style. Note, the vertical cross of the Q. (Much like whatever the New Yorker uses in their "listings" section.

http://www.sweaterthieves.com/uploaded_images/mysteryletters.gif
online image at link above.

Thanks in advance for any help.

–Jonathan

p.s. Thanks for the title edit moderators. I'll work on that.

Mark Foster
29 Oct 2007 — 8:08am

I would say Vogue Medium or Bold. H&FJ's Verlag will get you close.

Can't remember where I found this image of Vogue (Light), perhaps the old H&FJ web site:

Jonathan Bennett
29 Oct 2007 — 7:42am

Thank you Mark. That was quick.
Too bad it is called Vogue. Any google searches will probably only yield a million items related to the famous magazine's typography.

Oh well. This certainly helps.

Best.

Florian Hardwig
29 Oct 2007 — 7:54am

Too bad it is called Vogue. Any google searches will probably only yield a million items related to the famous magazine’s typography.

You can search the Global Type database.

Ehague
29 Oct 2007 — 8:18am

From Alexander Lawson's Anatomy of a Typeface

Quincunx
29 Oct 2007 — 11:08am

'superficially resebles Futura', understatement, lol. It even has the odd characters in Special No. 8, like that 'r'.

Florian Hardwig
29 Oct 2007 — 11:24am

Yeah, and ‘Special No. 3’ is the Kabel enhancement. Someone should do an OpenType version with stylistic subsets; the Early-20th-Century-German-Geometric-Sans-All-In-One-Font … ;°)

Stephen Coles
29 Oct 2007 — 12:09pm

We have discussed Vogue here before:

http://www.typophile.com/node/730
http://www.typophile.com/node/36632

Jonathan Bennett
29 Oct 2007 — 12:48pm

Yes, Stephen, thanks. I found one of those discussions while hunting around. So, another related question, how about that typeface that The New Yorker uses for their listings? Is that commercially available? Is it Vogue? It has the telltale Q.

Bald Condensed
29 Oct 2007 — 4:04pm

Care to post a visual sample so we can see what you're talking about?

Ehague
30 Oct 2007 — 11:18am

Also, check out Neutraface and Neutraface 2. They both have that Q.

(x) Geometric text sans w/ low x-height and vertical tail on Q - Vogue {Mark Foster}

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