What about this one. It's from the Swedish newspaper Kvällspesten [sic]
I am going to make a fake poster for a friend who asked me to make one for him... but I cannot figure out what kind of type they use. Maybe it is something they've invented themselves? the Ä and Ö and A with an ° on top must be specially made for their headlines.
Anyone who could recommend something for me to use? I can make the Ä and Ö and A with an ° on top myself in illustrator.
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I'll alert Florian...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hardwig/8340976851/in/pool-fancy-diacritics
hhp
Trim Poster.
Don
Are you sure the newspaper’s name isn’t Kvällsposten?
The typeface looks like some home-brewn Futura to me – probably custom(ized). If you are looking for a similar retail font with such compact diacritics, see Scangraphic’s Supertypes Series, labeled with SH – e.g. Futura SH. This series started in the 1980, i.e. before OpenType. The compact alternates are still not properly encoded as alternates, but can be accessed via ~ (tilde) for Å and { for Ö. In the early 1990s, URW released its Poster series. In Futura P Extrabold, such integrated accents are the default.
Albert-Jan Pool kindly provided me with this information for my recently published article on unusual umlauts for TypoJournal.
Yes Florian.. 'pesten' in Swedish means 'the plague'. I amn't particulary found of their journalism, that's why I call them that.
Thanx.. I will use Futura and modify it a little.
Ah, yellow fever journalism. ;-)
hhp
If you purchase Trim Poster this is what you get for outlined accents similar to the sample:
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