Typophile

What's Sagmeister using on his new book?

Naoise Ó Conchubhair

Straight-forward one here I’d imagine, can someone ID this please.

Thanks

hmmmm...most of the font looks like either

Arial Monospaced Bold

or

F2F OCR Alexczyk

but am totally foxed with the Y. The top edge turns vertical which none of the above fonts do...

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arjun

He has been known to draw his own letters. No reason he couldn’t make his own font. But I think this has come up here before, maybe without an answer.

Jaysus I thought this would be an open and shut case. It’s certainly not Arial Mono, as Arjun pointed out the leg of R turns vertical, and the X is the same (although it’s not in my sample). Another give-away is the leg on the G. This may well be Sagmeisters own creation as Stephen pointed out. I know for a fac

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