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(x) Slightly flared sans - Hiragino Kaku Gothic W8 {Akira1975}
Posted by ornmnt in
9 Feb 2011 — 11:57am
9 Feb 2011 — 11:57am
Hi all,
Any idea about the above typeface? At first I thought it might be something from House Industries, but I didn't see anything that matched in their collection. What the font suggests Titling Gothic FB; it's close but not quite. Any ideas?
Thanks!
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9 Feb 2011 — 6:30pm
It’s Hiragino Kaku Gothic W8, which is one of the Japanese fonts loaded on Mac OS X.
9 Feb 2011 — 6:34pm
It seems to me this might be an old phototype font, and the flares are actually thorns - a thorn being the inverse of a trap, something intended to "melt away" to maintain a sharp corner, and not really part of the intended shape.
Ergo: you might figure out what the font is by imagining it without the flares.
hhp
9 Feb 2011 — 6:35pm
Nevermind... :-/
OR: How old is that design?
hhp
9 Feb 2011 — 6:50pm
set in Hiragino Kaku Gothic W8:
16 Feb 2011 — 4:04pm
Thanks so much you guys. I think it definitely is Hiragino Kaku Gothic W8. It's an interesting thought about the flares, hrant, but I think it's most likely the system font. I scanned this from a book which was produced in 2005.
As always, much appreciated!
16 Feb 2011 — 4:22pm
Hrant: Do you have any visuals examples of the effect? I've been thinking about something related for knocked out type: inverse inktraps.
16 Feb 2011 — 6:27pm
I was going to scan something from my copy of Frutiger's "Type Sign
Symbol", but then I found this online - look at page 86 in this PDF:
http://www.marksimonson.com/images/FrutigerTalk.pdf
hhp