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80's Hair/Glam Metal Type Stylings
Posted by WakeUpMrWest in
23 Dec 2009 — 9:58am
23 Dec 2009 — 9:58am
Hi everyone, I am currently working on a project for which I have been looking at custom typefaces and customized typefaces used by 80's hair metal bands, for example:
http://www.metal-norge.com/images/kiss-logo.jpg
http://news.filefront.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/metallica-logo.jpg
http://www.metal-rules.com/zine/images/stories/concerts/2008%20SWEDENROC...
http://api.ning.com/files/*d7nuB0sL6mR7DIRfogItnA7m-ytqZsieoLTdIW0KgU_/j...
http://i.peperonity.com/c/A6CB68/19966/ssc3/home/077/black.sabbath/sabba...
http://www.otmg.net/artist/asia/Asialogo.jpg
I wondered if anyone could point me in the direction of any good design parodies of this kind of style?
Thanks, Chris
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23 Dec 2009 — 10:06am
With the exception of Metallica, which IIRC is a heavily-altered Futura, that’s all custom lettering. There are literally hundreds of free fonts in this style but they’re all pretty ugly. In the commercial realm you can get some nice Blackletters in the form of Blaktur and Fakir, but what you should really do is draw the letters.
23 Dec 2009 — 10:10am
Yes I know, I'm not asking for typefaces, just examples of custom lettering in the style.
23 Dec 2009 — 10:30am
Related?
http://typophile.com/node/20336
23 Dec 2009 — 2:01pm
If you just want examples there’s actually a book out there about crazy metal logos and graphics. I can’t remember the title, but I’m sure that Google does.
23 Dec 2009 — 2:35pm
> I’m sure that Google does.
No doubt, but I found it was hard to ask it the right questions.
Although I couldn't find a book (a search on Amazon turned up results about the typography of the paper bands around cigars), I did find a movie on the subject: Died Young, Stayed Pretty.