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(x) Top Gear Magazine fonts - Dispatch, FF DIN {Marten F, Lex}

Sebastian Villalonga

Hi people,

Does anybody knows which are those TOP GEAR Magazine fonts? No idea. The body text looks like in the style of the Modern sans fonts like DIN but of course is not DIN. Here is the link

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=14I2nzxBacfE83eaueNDDYReY6WFQl

Any ideas?
Thanks,

Fontbureaus Dispatch.

Ehm. For the headers that is... I’ll get back on the body text. ;^)

Looks like DIN, no?

- Lex

The body copy looks like Din.

Yes! I agree. I’ve been scratching my head trying to find what’s not DIN (or maybe DIN) about it...

Thanks guys for the fast reply. Don´t you think the body text is a bit rounded to be DIN? I don´t know i am not a font expert at all.

and a bit condensed too? I don´t know...

I think that’s just the printing process because none of the current rounded DINs look quite like this.

- Lex

I think it is FF Din Medium. But, it has been horizontally scaled about 5%, and the tracking is really tight. I’ve set this in yellow, original sample in gray.

yeap you were right it was DIN after all. The rounded style it a confussion because of the blur into the scanned page.

Thanks a lot to everybody for the good info and fast reply!
Sebastiao

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