Typophile

(x) Miwa Yanagi Elevator Girls exhibition sans w/ huge ink traps - Eunuverse {Angel}

Eric Doctor

I was at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston this past weekend, and all of the titling for the Miwa Yanagi exhibition was printed in huge letters on the wall in this typeface. It looks like a phone book typeface (given the ink wells), but I don't know any phone book typefaces besides Bell Centennial (which it is very obviously not). Any help is greatly appreciated.

I'm sorry I don't have a bigger picture, but I think you can get the idea.

Thanks!

Edit: I can't find a picture, but the y was especially strange. The tail started straight down from the center (with an ink well to either side), then slanted left.

Here's a (poorly drawn) example:

Angel71

Barry Deck's Eunuverse.

http://vllg.com/Thirstype/Eunuverse/mudTyper+Weights/

Eric Doctor

Cool, thanks! Do you know anything about where this typeface is used? It was obviously developed for small text, but I don't think I'd ever seen it before this past weekend, when it was very clearly not being used as originally intended.

Angel71

Barry Deck's early work can be seen in Raygun magazine.

http://balladora.blogspot.com/2007/05/ray-gun-covers-cc-1997.html

Jan Erdmann

I think in this case the ink traps are more a matter of style.
They are not meant to serve their original purpose.

Tiffany Wardle

IIRC This issue came out right around the same time that students everywhere were addicted to Bell Gothic because it was the only font that had that "look".

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