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Temsamani Logotype
Posted by CreativeNRG in
5 Aug 2009 — 1:09pm
5 Aug 2009 — 1:09pm
I've been wracking my brain checking all of the big foundries trying to ID this font. I uploaded the image to 'WhatTheFont' and posted to the WTF Forum without any luck. The Temsamani site appears to be from Vienna, Austria so I have a gut feeling the font may be from a foundry in Europe.
Any help with an ID very appreciated.
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5 Aug 2009 — 2:06pm
Could be something from Jonathan Barnbrook/Virus Fonts.
5 Aug 2009 — 2:26pm
If you do find it please tell us. I love that R.
5 Aug 2009 — 3:19pm
Reminds me a bit of Emigre style, but can't quite pin it. I swear I just saw something very similar to this.
6 Aug 2009 — 2:08am
It's fairly similar to my own Houschka Pro Bold and DemiBold with some characters from style set 2 and a bit of tweaking.
Nick Cooke
6 Aug 2009 — 8:03am
Thanks so much Nick... You nailed it!
I searched through the G-Type collection and felt Houschka was close but mistakenly thought the A, M, N and R in the logotype were standard characters. I've learned a good lesson today. With all the extra glyphs in the Pro versions (Houschka Pro has 853 - Wow!) it certainly makes font ID of logotypes a bit tricky when designers replace standard characters with a glyph or slightly modify others.
Keep up the great work.
6 Aug 2009 — 8:45am
Thanks Jeff.
But I didn't think I had nailed it - I just thought it was similar(ish).
Nick Cooke
6 Aug 2009 — 3:14pm
Bah. See I knew in the back of my head somewhere distant I recognized that R. And I think your R, Nick, is a better solution.
7 Aug 2009 — 6:35am
Probably was a modification of it. Good find, Nick.
7 Aug 2009 — 7:14am
Good find? Good design!
7 Aug 2009 — 7:22am
It wasn't that difficult to find - it was right there in my head all along.
Nick Cooke
7 Aug 2009 — 6:08pm
I found a little better version of the typeface and must agree with Nick that this doesn't appear to be 'Houschka Pro'. They use this all over their website and I have a hard time believing they customized an entire font.
I'm continuing my quest to ID this typeface and will keep you posted.
10 Aug 2009 — 11:56am
The mystery has been solved after an email to the company. They sent my message to the designer who was kind enough to send the following feedback.
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We are very happy to learn that you like the typeface of our client's logo. Unfortunately the typeface which you are interested in is currently not available, as it is a corporate typeface created for the branding of Temsamani Couture. But the typeface might get released through http://www.ydt-fonts.com in the near future.
All the best,
Yvonne Diedrich
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After some research I discovered Yvonne also designed:
– Eplica (Published by Letraset in 2001. It was among the winners of the (2001 Type Directors Club Type Design Competition)
– ITC Dyadis (Published by ITC and Linotype in 1998)
24 Aug 2009 — 3:59pm
I love the R too. My friend ERIN will love it!
BTW... Eplica is one of the best values in type, it’s very high on my list.