Typophile

Retro Album Font

TinyCrumb

Sorry I couldn’t be more descriptive, I really don’t know what else to say about this.

It’s from a new album put out by John Mayer and I love the design. I know that he mentioned at one time who the designer was that made it but I cannot find the text again...

Anyway, I love the font, any help with what it is and where to find it?

Cheers.

Joshua

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If it’s Franklin Gothic Demi Compressed, is the exclamation could be an adaptation cause the round dot?

http://www.fontshop.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=catalog.fontdetail&displayf...


I think a display cut of Franklin Gothic Demi Compressed was used, since in the sample I find you can see ink trap in the “Y”. But definitely the exclamation point was modified for the round period.

Hmm... so is that the consensus, FGDC with a custom exclamation point?

I think Norbert is right.

Yup, but a display cut (which I haven’t found yet) with a custom “!”

Can you explain to me what the difference would be in a “display cut”

I have to apologize, I am new here and EXTREMELY inexperience when it comes to typography. I know with some of my professional fonts, there is often a “display” one, but I have never looked for the difference between the two.

Also, what is ink trap?

Again, I apologize for the probably simple questions.

Joshua, a display version of a font is meant to be used at large sizes, say huge on an album cover, so certain design details are tweaked.

The specific example in this font is the ink trap in the capital Y in “TRY”. If you look at the sample posted by Norbert you’ll see an extra notch in the “valley” of the Y, which is very obvious at huge sizes, but it helps to sharply define the “valley” at small sizes.

The Bell Centennial typeface was designed by Matthew Carter for Bell telephone books, and the ink traps help the clarity of the letters under the stresses of high-speed printing and their legibility at tiny sizes.
http://www.linotype.com/13687/bellcentennialboldlisting-font.html?PHPSES...

Some typefaces use the ink trap as a design device. A brilliant example of this is Christian Schwartz’s “Amplitude”.
http://fontbureau.com/fonts/Amplitude

Wow, thank you!

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