Have you considered the possibility that it’s custom drawn, using a bauhaus or a geometric font as a starting point? That r doesn’t look familiar to me.

Bitstream Geometric 706 Black is close but not exactly it.

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/geometric-706/

The “r” is most certainly custom.

> I know this font came from somewhere because I’m no font founder

So you designed this logo? How long ago?

I suspect there are characters from three different fonts tacked together, and maybe the r altered. You can tell because the e is so much wider than the o and the a, and the r of yet another character.

I seem to remember seeing a font like that in smaal book written in Spanish. My daughter was a 1st grader at the time and about 80% of the kids in her school were immigrants from Central and South America. My daughter was trying to help some of her classmates with English and they, in turn, were helping her with Spanish. The books were school level simple with big type that looked much like that. Perhaps you might check some Spanish sources?

ChrisL

Most definately a custom treated font, just a bold gothic font customized.

Thanks for all the insightful comments!

The text was put together by an outside designer some time ago and I was trying to track down the font unsuccessfully. It makes sense that I failed because it’s a mix of several fonts - I hadn’t noticed how the e is larger than the o as one poster above points out. I thought this “font” was nice - maybe someone should create one like this? :)

The Geometric 706 + custom “r” mentioned by a poster above looks like a direct hit to me.