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

Jonathan Bennett
29.Oct.2007 7.06am
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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.



Jonathan Bennett
29.Oct.2007 7.42am
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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.

JB


Florian Hardwig
29.Oct.2007 7.54am
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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.


Mark Foster
29.Oct.2007 8.08am
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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:


Ehague
29.Oct.2007 8.18am
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From Alexander Lawson’s Anatomy of a Typeface


Quincunx
29.Oct.2007 11.08am
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’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
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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 … ;°)


Jonathan Bennett
29.Oct.2007 12.48pm
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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
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Care to post a visual sample so we can see what you’re talking about?


Ehague
30.Oct.2007 11.18am
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Also, check out Neutraface and Neutraface 2. They both have that Q.