This is a scan from 121 magazine that just arrived the other day. I don’t remember seeing these fonts before. They are used all through the magazine, sometimes copy text is set in the serif.
The sans has strange Äs, I think, is that very common?
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Mosaic and the first two lines is Raleigh.
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/raleigh/raleigh/
Thank you, Pieter! I find the “o”s interesting and unusual.
think the one at the bottom is auto by underware
Good one, James. Two down, one to go.
Well, I took this last one as a challenge, and I think it has defeated me. The counter on the P and R is too big for anything I can find. The J, K, C and S are also hard to find in combination anywhere; and of course the low Ä is really not common at all.
I pretty much hunted the condensed sansserifs at MyFonts, and the best I could come up with were Storm’s ’Ohrada’, Berthold’s ’AG Condensed’ and ’Silverscreen’, from TypeArt.
This is a good mystery, because condensed sans faces are used a lot, but I am coming to the conclusion that this is from an obscure source — maybe a small European foundry.
- Mike Yanega
Thank you for trying, Mike!
That low Ä was the thing that really caught my attention, not too keen on it, to be honest. It looks very strange in words with double-Ä, and that’s not unusual in Finnish, as you can see in this nonsense sentence:
“kääntäisitkö äänilevyn kääntöpuolen ääriasentoon?”
The nex issue of the magazine just arrived with the mystery font used in a headline. Is it any easier to recognise in bigger size?
Captured from web.archive.org on 30 Oct 2008. view this capture
