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Pls help me ID this font
Posted by balmain in
3 Sep 2010 — 11:25pm
3 Sep 2010 — 11:25pm
Pls help me ID this font, I am not sure if that font really exists?
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3 Sep 2010 — 11:31pm
This was addressed once before, without definitive results:
http://typophile.com/node/302
3 Sep 2010 — 11:32pm
it's still a curious case, thx by the way.
4 Sep 2010 — 2:47am
I think it is a customised Novarese’s Augustea (see first answer in the older thread).
Unfortunately that design is digitally available only in an inscribed version (http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/efscangraphic/augustea-open-sb/alternate_cu...).
The one Yves points to in the other thread is a completely unrelated design, which appears to bear the same name (http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/berthold/augustea-bq/).
4 Sep 2010 — 8:45am
somewhere in digital black hole:
Augustea: Fanderia Caratteri Societa Nebiolo, Aldo Novarese/Alessandro Butti 1951 and Nova Augustea AN 1964
(eccentric tops of N and M)
4 Sep 2010 — 8:52am
Jan, are you saying there was a digital version?
4 Sep 2010 — 9:05am
Yes, OPTINovaAugustea, Castcraft Software, Inc. 1990-1991
but this is all I know about it, sorry Riccardo.
5 Sep 2010 — 11:03pm
http://www.terminaldesign.com/lettering/logotypes/barneys-new-york/
6 Sep 2010 — 1:30am
Thank you Akira!
(it seems that the original logo still could have been based on Augustea)
6 Sep 2010 — 3:13am
Have you asked Barney?
6 Sep 2010 — 3:55am
"it had been auto traced from an old scan in 1993"
The story turned the clocks back to early nineties. I had been redoing some logos for clients, who had only crappy business cards...
Thanks Akira!