Typophile

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I have been looking everywhere for this font to no avail.
I thought Neutraface came fairly close but there are obvious differences like ‘A’ and ‘P’. Also it looks fairly different in lower case.
Unfortunately what I have is a very limited sample.

Does anyone have any idea?

Thanks!

jayrom

unknown

Looks like FF DIN squooshed to me.

unknown

If that’s the actual size of it, it may just be a bitmap (screen) font, which are often used for navigation buttons. In other words, this may not be a ‘normal’ font that you could print, because bitmap fonts only look good at low screen resolutions.

- Mike Yanega

unknown

Mike, I highly doubt this is a bitmap font as there is evident anti-aliasing which would not normally occur in the use of bitmap fonts.

unknown

Thanks for the feedback.
I do not think it is a bitmap font. This is an actual image that was created by a designer who has since disappeared without bothering to let me know which font she used!
I looked at FF DIN but it seems to me the ‘H’ and ‘E’ are fairly different, with the middle stem(?) being a lot lower in the font I posted.
This characteristic is what made me first believe that it was Neutraface.

jayrom

unknown

> I looked at FF DIN but it seems to me the ‘H’ and ‘E’ are fairly different, with the middle stem(?) being a lot lower in the font I posted.

That’s because the type size is really small in relation to the pixel size. Quite often the horizontal stems “jump” up or down a pixel when anti-aliasing. I’m positive this is DIN.

unknown

Great! I will get FF DIN then and start working ;-)
Thank you so much for all the help, you have no idea how much time I’d spent trying to figure this out.

jayrom

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