Typophile

Swindle magazine nameplate constructed geometric stencil face

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Hi. Again!

Swindle magazine is a street art/culture magazine. Is the font used in the masthead a custom font or is it available?
I know Shepard Fairey uses it on his agency Studio number one site, and he is part founder of Swindle Magazine.

thanks for your help.

Well, if this is custom, and it seems likely that it is, it would not be too hard to put this together from pieces of letters, and/or letters with lines drawn through them. Do they use this 'font' for more than the masthead and 'STUDIO NUMBER ONE'? If not, these may be the only letters that exist. (Notice there are two different N's, between the two logos).

- Mike Yanega

Given that there is so much hand-drawn type in every issue and the fact that Fairey's background is street art, I am guessing that this is custom and he had a major hand in it himself.

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