A current client of mine runs a series of live music venues that for some reason he wants to look tough. Like old western slab serif/big bold sans serifs...that kind of thing. Anything TOUGH. Well after trying Giza and a few others I'm running out of my tough typefaces. Recommend any?
Blackletter is cool too.
ChrisL
Need tough? House United is as tough as they come. Man law!
Neil Bold:
or DoubleDagger (alternative for United)
>blackletter
Relatively new –
"Kaas"
http://vllg.com/Thirstype/Kaas/mudTyper+Weights/
From the 1930s –
Some of the original "neu-gotischen Schriften".
Scroll down to "Deutschland" and "Tannenberg"
http://www.romana-hamburg.de/fraktur5.htm
Eagle Bold.
Take the real thing:
D.Stempel AG, Frankfurt am Main
Erstguß 1935
Friedrich Heinrichsen
And a poster styled in a kind of 'Leni Riefenstahl'.
Sound from Motörhead.
That's it.
Georg
That is tough Georg, goodwork! :-)
ChrisL
Hahahaha, Georg. Ich knie nieder. Genial.
International version: LOL
Knox is tough:
http://www.typography.com/catalog/knox/index.html
Thanks everyone, genius recommendations!
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