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(x) Becoming Jane? movie logo - Futura, P22 Corinthia {Yves, Mike Y}

Joe Brown

Anyone know what these types for the logo "becoming Jane" movie web site.

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The least you can do is add a link… ;^)

I see a lot of Futura, but I'm not sure what the script is.

Oops, sorry, when I posted my comment your sample wasn't attached yet!

Sorry, typo.

Pfff, you don't wanna know how many times I've seen "it's" instead of "its" in all kinds of trailers, websites and so on. :^/

Sorry about the link, you caught me with my pants down...
Well , before I noticed I didn't attach the image to the post. :)

I doubt the script is handwritten, it must be a font. There's not too many scripts around that it could be?
:) j/k

On another note,
would there be any rational to use a geometric Futura for a romantic/period theme?
Perhaps, is it a case of the recent popularity of hairline fonts, or perhaps a hairline font does fit the theme and outweights the coldness of a geometric... since it's such a small weight perhaps the geometric attributes don't come into effect anyways?
Nah, probably just a favorite type of the designer.

What do you think?

That's sad. A lovely movie by the trailer but not by the type. They should hire Typophile!

Is it possible that BECOMING is Montreal TS XLight?
[edit] The rest would also fit Montreal TS if I am not mistaken.

Michel... from Montreal.

Is it possible that Montreal TS is just a copy of Futura?

Well, the "t" at least is obviously different. Is there anything about Walter Florenz Brendel that I should know?

[edit] I just found on sanskritweb this link about Quebec being a forgery of Frutiger... Montreal, Quebec, ... What next?

Michel, my apologies, you are correct about the letter t. (Shame on me, I should have noticed!) MyFonts has some info on Walter Florenz Brendel, which explains a bit about the slight variations from Futura. And I guess that at least in the case of TS Volkswagen, he is slyly winking at those who know that Futura has been the typeface used by Volkswagen since the 1960s, when Helmut Krone created those iconic ads...

As for that other website, my advice is... don't go there.

Ricardo, thanks for the references. As for "that other website", I must confess that the only alternative I have found so far to cross reference fonts is looking at their Berry name used by TeX and fontinst -- nothing user friendly, to say the least. Any better suggestion would be most welcomed.

Back to the 'jane' script -- I'm convinced that it is P22 Corinthia, by Rob Leuschke, that has had part of the l.c. j removed.

- Mike Yanega

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