Sep 30, 2016 at 10:06 [reply]
HELP On second thought, a height reduction of 50% is too much, because it transforms _YOU ARE_ into thick and thin (stressed contrast) letters.
The most common design for a Sans Serif is the Grotesque proportions found in Druk, Knockout, etc.
Perhaps the best image to use in searching for a match is _YOU ARE_ with the height reduced to 75%, which has the usual Grotesque proportions
BW Druk XXXX Condensed is closer to this image, but is NOT THE FONT.
We should also consider the possibility that the letters of _YOU ARE_ were drawn by hand as an art illustration exercise

Edited 4 times. Last edit on Sep 30, 2016 at 09:56 by donshottype
Wordmark designed in collaboration by Facebook’s in-house design team and Eric Olson of Process Type Foundry. Details:
http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_logo_for_facebook_done_in-house_with_eric_olson.php#.V-4IPX19l8F
Eric Olson's Klavika was used in the original logo
Berton Hasebe, designer of Druck, produuced by Commercial Type, created some extremely narrow widths as part of his package of Business Week Druck, which is now used in _Bloomberg Businerss Week_.
The narrowest, BW Druk XXXX Condensed

is thicker and wider than the Berlinart poster.
I have not found a closer approximation of the letters of _YOU ARE_
However, this seems moot, because the letters of _YOU ARE_ show reverse contrast, i.e. the horizontal strokes are thicker than the vertical strokes.
IMHO it seems unlikely that there is a font that matches the letters of _YOU ARE_ without some compression.
To remove the reverse contrast effect from _YOU ARE_ we can try reducing the height of the letters by 50%, so they look like:

Edited 3 times. Last edit on Sep 30, 2016 at 13:35 by frd
Hand-lettered using a 1950s casual interlock style originally developed by Saul Bass casual
Several fonts capture the rhythmic tone of this lettering.
The closest might be Mister Sirloin
Other possibilities include:
Square Meal
http://myfonts.us/td-jh39ae
Swung Note
http://myfonts.us/td-gfsWfm
Gumbutcha
http://myfonts.us/td-9f5MwD descender on _p_ replaced by descender from _q_
Identified font: Aquiline
Edited on Sep 28, 2016 at 15:16 by donshottype
Lettering in the style of a simplified Tuscan.
Quadrille 2 could be modified to replicate the monogram.
For _L_ copy the top terminal, rotate 90 degrees right and use it to replace the teardrop.
Might be numbers resident in a machine for sequential numbering or physical numbers in a crash numbering machine.
Most people would not notice any differences from Prata, a free Google Web Font
With some distortion, esp. the top heavy _S_
Weatherly Systems did a version under the name Tolkein. Download is of doubtful legitimacy.
Edited 4 times. Last edit on Sep 27, 2016 at 19:45 by donshottype
Knockout 68 Full Featherweight -- NOT THE FONT -- could be used "as is" for a fairly close substitute.

Edited on Sep 27, 2016 at 12:52 by donshottype
The _A_, _B_, _R_ and _O_ are geometric Art Deco.
The remaining letters look like Metro Two by W.A. Dwiggins
http://myfonts.us/td-UtkOHG
Still looking to see if this combination is a font.
Edited on Sep 27, 2016 at 11:49 by frd
Not a font. Note for example that, while the width of the vertical strokes in _L_, _U_ and _E_ are about the same, the ones in _B_ are noticeably wider.
Compare to Impact, with the width narrowed by 73.5% -- which makes the vertical stoke width the same as _E_ in YAMALUBE.
In the ballpark, but would need a fair amount of adjustment to match the YAMALUBE logo.
Other similar fonts, Helvetica Inserat & Compacta Bold.
Edited 2 times. Last edit on Sep 26, 2016 at 21:20 by donshottype
Is this a photo of an actual leather-goods product?
Do you have any information on the source of the image?
The _c_ and the _s_ remind me of Rob Leuschke's FleurDeLeah -- NOT THE FONT used for _Success_ --
http://myfonts.us/td-p5DbvD
The _u_ reminds me of Edward Benguiat's ITC Edwardian Script -- NOT THE FONT used for _Success_ --
http://myfonts.us/td-J4O4qe
Edited 3 times. Last edit on Sep 27, 2016 at 09:42 by donshottype
With tail clipped from _a_
aka Times New Roman
This is the famous font commissioned for The Times of London in 1932.
Available on the operating system for Microsoft computers.
Comment: very appropriate choice for artwork of a time piece

Edited on Sep 25, 2016 at 16:51 by donshottype
A lost Art Deco gem. Good find.

Edited on Sep 25, 2016 at 11:57 by Lancon
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