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(x) Thin stressed geometric sans in Another Magazine - Fashion Thin (proprietary face) {Mike F}

... between AvantGarde and a thin version of a sans serif Bodoni... which probably means it's a custom font. WIth a little Optima ... the a with an ascender. A girl in my year won a film poster national competition with some free font she downloaded and it had this ...

Forum topic - rakai - 27 Jun 2006 - 11:27am - 25 comments - 3 attachments

Paul Renner and Futura: The Effects of Culture, Technology, and Social Continuity On the Design of Type for Printing

... and post" r is ambiguous: where you see Gothic, I see Bodoni. In any case, Renner's stated aim with r, as well as with m and n, was ... That partly explains why he no longer wanted to be the poster boy of the New Typography. Notwithstanding Heimat, the capitals of ...

Forum topic - Charles Leonard - 23 Feb 2006 - 4:57pm - 55 comments - 0 attachments

The best fonts you can't have...

... logo etc but occcasionally customise - they did their own Bodoni for example) I didn’t think you were I didn't think you were ... 60's vibe and is really direct. Great for massive one word Poster headings. The cap M is really broad. Nice. My wish for what I want ...

Forum topic - SuperUltraFabulous - 24 May 2006 - 2:30pm - 97 comments - 0 attachments

Critiques of the OpenType format?

... occasional mishaps, like Courier ending up in an airport poster, with really bad spacing, like, it was substituted. Another, ... You know the argument: what do I get new when I buy Adobe Bodoni in OT? Answer: not a single new glyph. Ah, but wait a minute. Answer me ...

Forum topic - ishamid - 16 Jan 2006 - 11:29am - 111 comments - 0 attachments

Retro = Stealing

... According to Scher, the According to Scher, the Swatch poster was a parody of the Matter poster, not a rip-off. The story about the ... by Malcolm Garrett in an early Baseline magazine (the Bodoni issue I think). Historical pastiche and parody would be other aspects of ...

Forum topic - rob_luciani - 2 Oct 2006 - 5:47pm - 80 comments - 3 attachments

20 typefaces to start a designers career

... Helvetica Neue Univers Futura Frutiger, Bodoni, Cheltenham, Meta, Caslon and Clarendon I return to often enough to ... In 1979, Jack Summerford got the assignment to design a poster for the largest type house in Dallas to promote then-new ITC Garamond. ...

Forum topic - andywall - 9 Jun 2003 - 8:29am - 56 comments - 0 attachments

Looking for an elegant stencil font

... @lineto.com? Also URW’s Bodoni Stenicl. Also URW's Bodoni Stenicl . BPpong from backpacker.gr BPpong from backpacker.gr ... lovely, but cargo in all caps is just gorgeous. there's a poster hanging in zurich with cargo all caps saying "AL PACINO" (its for a ...

Forum topic - eclectic - 5 Jun 2006 - 10:20am - 31 comments - 0 attachments

Not feminine enough?

... because the type is to loud (big). Its a planner not a poster. Tone it down a bit. I think the imagery is not really working ... guide per Georg. I think classy display use, I think Bodoni Classico or something, but the vertical stress is far too mechanical. I ...

Forum topic - Dan Gayle - 27 Oct 2006 - 7:39pm - 133 comments - 0 attachments

Type Battle! Week 2 (23 Jan)

... ) First time poster on here, First time poster on here, be gentle with me! First year illustration student with little ... Ok, bigger… I liked the Ok, bigger... I liked the Bodoni Swash so much, I patterned this after it. Great work ...

Forum topic - Christian Robertson - 28 Oct 2007 - 7:56pm - 117 comments - 0 attachments

"if..." movie logo

... is some similarity. The top of the f is very similar to Poster Bodoni (a.k.a. Ultra Bodoni), but the bracketed serifs and the top of the i are ...

Forum topic - tartarus - 25 Mar 2006 - 1:22pm - 8 comments - 0 attachments