Can anyone ID this font

Christo · 8 Nov 2009 at 17:50

the font recognition programmes cant work it out - I think it looks cool..

may be better here: http://thetubist.com/tmp_black_left.gif

whitecrook · 8 Nov 2009 at 18:00

IMPACT!!!

Christo · 8 Nov 2009 at 18:12

hmm, It looks similar but look at the h and p - they are extended compared to impact.

asim18 · 8 Nov 2009 at 18:23

Tw Cen MT Condensed Bold

Hxc · 8 Nov 2009 at 18:25

WhatTheFont comes up with Futura Condensed Medium Oblique as the closest.

Christo · 8 Nov 2009 at 19:05

none of those! Theres too many fonts in the world!

This isnt it either grr (compacta BT)

simisker · 8 Nov 2009 at 22:00

asim18 said:
Tw Cen MT Condensed Bold

It's not quite this; more likely to be Century Gothic Bold Condensed Oblique or some infringement-sidestepping near-clone.

The closest you'll get with 'common' fonts is Futura Bold Condensed Oblique, but it's lacking in x-height and stroke width consistency - the two differences that Century Gothic would address.

asim18 · 8 Nov 2009 at 22:33

simisker · 8 Nov 2009 at 22:35

That's not CG Bold Condensed Oblique, though - you've just squished [and possibly also skewed] the standard CG Bold.

asim18 · 8 Nov 2009 at 22:39

simisker said:
That's not condensed - you've just squished it.

It is condensed. I have squished it to 82%. And I've set tracking to -70.

asim18 · 8 Nov 2009 at 22:41

simisker said:
That's not CG Bold Condensed Oblique, though - you've just squished [and possibly also skewed] the standard CG Bold.

Well the person that made the logo obviously hasn't used a bog standard font. He has also "squished [and possibly also skewed] the standard CG Bold".

And it isnt century gothic anyway. Just look at the "c" and "e".

simisker · 8 Nov 2009 at 22:52

asim18 said:
Well the person that made the logo obviously hasn't used a bog standard font. He has also "squished [and possibly also skewed] the standard CG Bold".

He clearly hasn't squished anything - the stroke weight is too even through upstrokes and cross-strokes.

"Squishing" type changes the subtle-but-important ratio between upstroke and cross-stroke widths, as seen in your CG example above [the 'o' showing it most obviously].

If he hasn't used a bog-standard font designed by a professional fontographer, he's done a great job of hand-customising each glyph. Kudos to him if this is the case!

simisker · 8 Nov 2009 at 22:54

asim18 said:
And it isnt century gothic anyway. Just look at the "c" and "e".

Are you not aware that fonts employ different letter shapes depending upon whether they're regular, condensed or extended?

asim18 · 8 Nov 2009 at 23:07

simisker said:
Are you not aware that fonts employ different letter shapes depending upon whether they're regular, condensed or extended?

Why don't you do a comparison using Century Gothic Condensed then? I cant find the Condensed one on my system.

I've done mine with Tw Cen MT Condensed Bold with -70 tracking and 82% width and it's pretty spot on.

simisker · 8 Nov 2009 at 23:45

asim18 said:
Why don't you do a comparison using Century Gothic Condensed then? I cant find the Condensed one on my system.

I don't have it. In fact, it doesn't seem readily available on the net, which is why I mentioned it could be a near-clone. Or possibly something drafted by an inspired indie type foundry, now I think of it.

This doesn't mean it couldn't exist. If you've bought a DTP/graphics package in the past - Corel, for instance - you'll know that they bundle a shedload of clone typefaces under different names. Maybe this is one of those.

asim said:
I've done mine with Tw Cen MT Condensed Bold with -70 tracking and 82% width and it's pretty spot on.

That 'pretty' is a potent qualifier

The untrained eye probably won't see the differences in the 't' 'm' 'h' 'p' 's' 'e' and '!', so in this respect, you're right - to the average person, it probably is pretty spot on.

But is it the exact same font? No.

Do I know that CG Bold Condensed Oblique is the exact same font? No, but I've enough knowledge to know that it is more likely.

However, in the absence of any font files to point to, this is all a bit of a moot point - neither of us have definitely IDed this font for Christo