Recommend Me Fonts

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Hi guys, I'm like for intresting Fonts to use for Logo material in future (spam) broadcast. Recommend me you favourite Fonts. Comic Sans need not apply.

[Norton Canes]

My favourite from the old Letraset catalogue was always Block Up

[FredNurke]

Are these anything like 'fuck me shoes'?

[biggytitbo]

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My favourite from the old Letraset catalogue was always Block Up

Thats pretty cool one, I've added it to my Fonts list.

I've always been a fan of some of the Fonts Nevile Brody uses in his work.

[wosl]

Concreta (inspired by an Albers' designed one; would be worth comparing and contrasting this with the original):



Codystar:



Capture It:

[Icehaven]

[Spoon of Ploff]

DINGBATS

[Pdine]

Something where the letters are all cocks.

[Flouncer]

Use Wingdings, for everything.

[Glebe]

https://www.horkans.ie/c/water-fountains-and-features/505

[a duncandisorderly]

microgramma's pretty trippy.

[Ferris]

Toronto Subway.



I've always thought it was nice.

[Golden E. Pump]

Comic Sans is due a Renaissance. A Renaissans, if you will.

[Jim_MacLaine]

I'm a big fan of Washington, as used around BBC Television Centre.

[BlodwynPig]

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I'm a big fan of Washington, as used around BBC Television Centre.

     

To give credit where it's due, the TrueType recreation of Washington is the work of Dave Jeffery (aka. Kecske Bak) - here he explains the background of the font and the process of recreating it.

He has recreated many other esoteric British TV fonts, logos and sequences, his site is fascinating.

[Bazooka]

Don't even know where the font setting is on my typewriter, please help anyone listening!

[QDRPHNC]

Go and browse Google Fonts, you can download them all for free.

[QDRPHNC]

Toronto Subway.



I've always thought it was nice.

Looks quite a lot like Futura, classic font.

[Dex Sawash]

Six point, eight point, ten point, BOLD
Come mister Frutiger recommend me font

[Dex Sawash]

^ Meant to be in this font

[seepage]

what a foolish slip-up!

[Dex Sawash]

Haven't read the thread, daf or captain z has done that joke already haven't they?

[willpurry]

Something where the letters are all cocks.

Tmes New Rodong.

[Ferris]

Looks quite a lot like Futura, classic font.

Just had a read of the Wikipedia page, it is "inspired" by Futura (ie changed just enough to avoid copyright infringement).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Subway_(typeface)

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Is he designing a late noughties post-hardcore band logo?

[a duncandisorderly]

I once made a font out of my own handwriting- reasons two-fold. first, it was an exercise to see how it could be done & what the pitfalls were (I used fontographer, & there were many), so that I could make one for my mum so she could write documents & emails in her own handwriting as she found typing easier than long-hand, what with arthritis & so on. second- at the time, my band were hand-making CDr albums & writing on them with edding paint pens. as we grew our market, & prior to first gigging in the US, I realised that we would have to farm out the manufacture &, wanting to keep the house-style, I sent the ttf to the CD duplication place. so there are some real hand-written collectibles out there, then the printed ones, then the ones where we gave up & used american typewriter for everything.
my font (called 'mehand') ended up in machines at work. I saw posters & signs that people had made with it, not knowing its back-story, & it ended up in some of the broadcast CGs, so I saw it on air a few times too.

my other font story is from earlier... janet street porter had this show called 'dance energy' presented by her then b/f, normski (a dolt, but a talented photographer). the graphic designer wanted to use a face called 'formula 1' but we couldn't get it for the CG we were using for the show. so I tore the required page out of the letraset catalogue & scanned the characters one by one into this CG (an abekas A72, still one of my favourite machines of all time). then I set the machine to assembling a font out of these scans. inevitably it crashed. eventually, with some help from abekas ("no-one's tried this before, so we want to see if we can make it work") we got the job done & I watched in horror as the font was aired for the first time on BBC2. some of the letters were wonky- I hadn't got the baseline consistent, but at least I'd remembered the drops.... the next day, I told the GD I'd fix it, but she said "no! janet loves it! it's like a fucked typewriter" & so that's how it stayed.

here's an A72 keyboard that's been in a fire. the function buttons above the main qwerty summon on-screen menus for various bits of functionality, but after about an hour of using the machine, you don't actually need them to appear on-screen, you can just remember where everything is. that's how well designed it was.

[Sherringford Hovis]

Times New Bastard

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my other font story is from earlier... janet street porter had this show called 'dance energy' presented by her then b/f, normski (a dolt, but a talented photographer). the graphic designer wanted to use a face called 'formula 1' but we couldn't get it for the CG we were using for the show. so I tore the required page out of the letraset catalogue & scanned the characters one by one into this CG (an abekas A72, still one of my favourite machines of all time). then I set the machine to assembling a font out of these scans. inevitably it crashed. eventually, with some help from abekas ("no-one's tried this before, so we want to see if we can make it work") we got the job done & I watched in horror as the font was aired for the first time on BBC2. some of the letters were wonky- I hadn't got the baseline consistent, but at least I'd remembered the drops.... the next day, I told the GD I'd fix it, but she said "no! janet loves it! it's like a fucked typewriter" & so that's how it stayed.

Interesting stuff. Can you find a screengrab of what you mean? I've scanned through vids and can't say I've seen any captions with a messed-up baseline. Also, which font was it (if you can find a sample)?