Typophile

Looking for 2 Fonts

macynwa

Hi im trying to identify the 2 fonts used in this logo

Thanks in advance

Mark

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Both look like Helvetica Neue to me, Extended for "nicholson" and and UltraLight or Thin for the text.

nicholson looks too bad to be a professional font.

nicholson looks too bad to be a professional font.

I really see Helvetica everywhere recently... If it appears to be true, I really need to consult an ophthalmologist :D

But it also has features (like the gently modulated tops of the arch-stem joins) that very few -legitimate- free fonts enjoy. In fact the "c" (and to a lesser extent the "o") is the only really malformed glyph. The "s" -a very difficult letter to make well- is tellingly clean, it's just horizontally stretched.

So my guess is it's either a one-off logo based on a mainstream font, or yet another plagiarized/butchered free font.

hhp

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