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NASA’s “meatball” logo typeface
Posted by Forner in
2 Apr 2009 — 7:06am
2 Apr 2009 — 7:06am
Can anyone tell me what serif typeface was used in NASA’s original “meatball” logo?
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2 Apr 2009 — 7:50am
What's up with the punctuation in the header?
Can you post a sample?
2 Apr 2009 — 7:58am
2 Apr 2009 — 8:19am
This has been here before:
http://typophile.com/node/8624
Probably custom.
2 Apr 2009 — 8:39am
I noticed that Largo Medium resembles this except for weight. I wonder if there was a Largo Black at one time?
- Mike Yanega
29 Apr 2009 — 12:43pm
I've been doing some digging with PAO at NASA HQ. They confirm that the meatball is a hand-lettered graphic created by one James Modarelli, agency employee, in 1958, in his spare time.
It would indeed make a very cool font.