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Need to identify this one.

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EF Digital Sans Light

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thanks.

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Thirty years old? Yikes! It must have been freakishly wild back then, eh?

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Nah. They just made a comeback. Also, back then it would have had only a hair's breadth of space between the characters.

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Damn, it's hard to believe that this font is older than me. Wow.

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Matthew, don't rub it in, whippersnapper!

Wow a singing, drumming, type idenifying Waffle. Wait until I tell Ripley's about this.

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By an amazing coincidence, I happened to run across a use of Digital Sans from the seventies this evening:

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This is taken from the February 1978 issue of National Lampoon magazine. So, it really did exist back then, and notice how the spacing is just as said it would be.

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