What are some of the better 3D and Shadow fonts? I like Umbra:



and Landmark Shadow:



and, to a lesser extent, Gill Sans Std Shadowed:



What fonts are similar to these?

Thanks,

~bito

Far most of shadow fonts have an outline as you show with the Gill Sans in the image and you can also see with the Landmark Dimensional. Shadowed ones like Umbra and Landmark Shadow are are the exception to the rule.
Gill Sans also has a shadowed version like the Umbra, the Gill Sans Light Shadowed.

Similar? http://www.myfonts.com/search/shadowed/fonts/

Thanks, I have Gill Sans Light Shadow. On quick glance, it appears to be Umbra, with a lower case alphabet. There also seems to be a Jeff Levine knockoff.

Gill Sans appears to be Umbra.

According to The Electronic Type Catalog by Steve Byers, (1991, Bantam Books) ISBN 0-553-35446-9, page 603, Umbra was designed by Robert Hunter Middleton in 1932, described as "A three-dimensional display type with no lowercase, designed for Ludlow. The face is essentially a version of the same designer's Ludlow Tempo sanserif letterform with a perspective shadow, (hence its name). The design is of the ingenious kind that suggests the letterform by means of its shadow without actually defining it by a complete outline.".

The Umbra font was first marketed by Bitstream in 1990, and revised until at least 1999, and Gill Sans Light Shadowed was copyrighted in 1993, at least for the Adobe version. The typeface itself is called Umbra, so it would logically follow that the first foundry to release a digital version would call dibs on the name.

The lack of the lower case alphabet wasn't just lazy designer: Middleton's Umbra was all caps. The lower case alphabet appears to be unique to the Gill.

I chose the ampersand as a random glyph to compare Umbra and Gill Sans Light Shadowed. Umbra looks a lot more professional, technically. The Gill looks more like if one was intentionally trying to create a faux bold weight:

Il peut reproduire aussi Tempo Italic.