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Please people, what is this ?
galine-etiquette

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eagle bold
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/fontbureau/eagle/bold/

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Can we get the time in seconds on that one? Awesome, Karl!

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Thanks but it seems not to be true : i check myfonts and if it's very near, the G, and upper A are a little different. Thanks again, anyway.
see : http://mapage.noos.fr/ponofob/eagle.png

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I think they substituted a Futura Black G.

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Or then it has been modified by the graphist.

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Mmm possible. Is eagle overused ? I have no idea.

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I don't think it is overused. Usually when it is used, it's done badly. Your sample shows that eagle can be used with class and sophistication.

I dont care much for the lower case which were reverse engineered since the original eagle was a caps only font. I always wished the G was more like the one from your sample, because IMHO the one that Morris Fuller Benton designed is too quirky.

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I love it, but the reason I don't use it more is that my successor at the theater company I used to work at changed their logo to it. It's now too uncomfortably close to me to be able to use it freely. Fortunately, there are other beautiful typefish in the sea.

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Do you have ever seen it in a newspaper/magazine. I'm a student in journalism & as we're going to make a school newspaper with a personnal design, i'm suddently thinking about it for titling.

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How nice are fonts� i just discovered a fact of history as the font has been designed for the National Recovery Administration. Interesting. Don't think this background fits with a french newspaper though.

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I was at the El Paso Airport a few years ago, and all the signs were done in Eagle. Somehow in that setting it looked Mexican!

So I wouldn't be too stuck on how it originated. It's how you use it. If it is sparingly used, it might be great. Also Fontbureau's version has a range of weights.

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