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HELP !!!

01/09/2012 alle 17:31

Somebody knows this font ??
Please help me

HELP !!!

Carattere Identificato

Square Slabserif 711 Bold  Suggeriti da SashiX 

Carattere suggerito

City Bold  Suggeriti da Heron2001 


01/09/2012 alle 19:49

Carattere suggerito: City Bold


01/09/2012 alle 21:14

Hm, at least "N" is different


01/09/2012 alle 23:12

Perhaps they lopped it off - or heavied the Medium... or it's another manufacturers.


02/09/2012 alle 11:33

Thank you so much !!!!!!!!!


02/09/2012 alle 15:28

You are very welcome.


03/09/2012 alle 04:35

Man, I knew it wasn't City Bold
Carattere Identificato: Square Slabserif 711 Bold


03/09/2012 alle 13:55

LOL - as I stated "or it's another manufacturers." Sashi, even Bitstream gives Berthold credit for designing City. In the States, a judge once ruled that if a manufacturer copies a font and changes just three characters - it's a new font. That is why in the late 60s and 70s, when we switched to cold type -- the hot metal houses waited for Helvetica - the real deal - to come -- and the cold type manufacturers were putting together their own Helveticas (i.e. Alphatype's Claro.)

Now Bitstream came along and did not want to pay royalties. So they redrew every font and gave them all new names. There is a site that has most of the Bitstream fonts labeled as to what they were suppose to be.

So, you are right that the N came from them - but the typesetter in me needs to give the credit to the actual owner of the font.

Many times, I've given the name of a font, and then learned it was not the "original." Akira loves stepping on me over at myfonts, and I cannot begin to tell you how much more I learned from him over the years (of not having a typeshop anymore...)


03/09/2012 alle 18:21

Yeah, sure thing, Jackie, all started with City I personally hate these things, even more when the same, apparently, font differs from publisher to publisher
And as mod in me, I think Square font needs to be marked in green rather than the other one. But of course we can mention City as the "mother" of Square (considering that Square is a legal font)

Modificato su 03/09/2012 alle 18:23 da SashiX


04/09/2012 alle 16:21

You didn't see me rushing to change it...

For the record, I never cared for the drawings of the Bitstream fonts. In the days of setting type, it was noticed that Bitstream's letter count per line was less than other manufacturers. They had made their fonts "wider." I was happier using the URW fonts - they were so well drawn (they used a system called Ikarus) and the fonts were set up where the letters truly fit very well together.

Most of the time when I see a Bitstream font named - I give the real font name. Like yesterday someone put in Exotic - and I went in with Peignots... (which one type shop enjoyed calling Pig Nuts...) Later... I have a road trip in front of me... and much to do before I leave.



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