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Focus Cover fonts

Joel Santos

Hi there!
Here i am again requesting your help.
I’m doing a work once again, a cover from the Focus skate mag for the digital class but still don’t know which are some fonts and so... i ask once again for your help.
I’ll send an images with the fonts.
One (the one which says “volume 3 issue 1” is futura off course but... what about the others?

Oh and please... tell me why are those fonts so i can learn something too :D

Appreciate your help...

Looks like mutations of Trade Gothic.

News Gothic and TS Hamburg are close matches for the “Pro-Paganda” text (the O in each font is a bit narrower than the example you’ve posted, though).

Yes Ricardo Cordoba, TS Hamburg is very similar to the PRO PAGANDA, there is somre variaton on the O and on the height, maybe i’m not seeing a light version that it seems to be on the image.
But i do really agree with Jan, i don’t think that cover designer used more than a font too.

What about january - february ’07 that ” ’ ” is kind of kinky, and it seems flipped but then i say... do the cover designer do some variations on the type? I do design and maybe i would go to that detail!

Futura it isnt we can even compare with the font on the right side the N and the M. What can you tell me about that?

Thanks for all

Joel Santos // youremin
sound & visual

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 07 is Futura Bold.
The apostrophy is indeed wrong and from another typeface.

My teacher Dino dos Santos found it strange too.
Bold? with that N? It is totally different from the one M on the right side!
I checked out but yes it is real similar that must be it... but... what about that ” ’ ” ... strange designer attitude! Well comprehensive but... still...

But thanks guies!!!! i really appreciate your help... really... thanks...

Joel Santos // youremin
sound & visual

just one more thing... how did you find out? what specifications on those letters did you find... revealing?

Joel Santos // youremin
sound & visual

Looks like mutations of Trade Gothic.

Spot-on, Jan. I imagine that for the headlines they zapped the counters into oblivion.

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 07 is Futura Bold

I was going to mention that in my first comment, but left it out because I thought it would be evident! Oh, well.

what specifications on those letters did you find... revealing?

Joel, in the word “PRO-PAGANDA” I looked at the tail of the R (i.e., where does it join the bowl?), the way the stems of the A join at the top, and the vertical stroke and horizontal terminal of the G... Hope this helps.

Eras

Sorry, couldn’t help it.

Walks off embarrased.

Ehehe not that focus...

This one.
http://www.theskateboardindustry.com/tsi/p/215.jpg

Yeah Ricardo, you’re right :) i learned something already eheheh

Joel Santos // youremin
sound & visual

Richard, the band Focus came to my mind also! :-D

{Walks off yodeling.}

Ricardo, you wouldn’t want to hear me yodel!

Joel, sorry to hijack your thread, I’m glad you saw the funny side. We have had quite a few album cover questions here recently.

Welcome to typophile.

Hehehe thanks you can hijack anytime ehehe...
I think i’ll start drawing some letters and so ...

So people ask “what do you do in life?” and i reply “well i do design and i draw letters”

Joel Santos // youremin
sound & visual

Ricardo, you wouldn’t want to hear me yodel!

In that case, Richard, I think that we could BOTH yodel and clear the room in -0.5 seconds! ;-D

sorry but.... what is yodel?

Joel Santos // youremin
sound & visual

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=yodelcourse

Also, if you’ve heard “Hocus Pocus,” by Focus, yodelling is what the singer does on that song.

oh i see

Joel Santos // youremin
sound & visual

For those who were curious about this project (no one obviously) i’ve already finished and so ... i post it down here.
The illustration is also made by me.

Joel Santos // youremin
sound & visual

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