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Hello All,

I've been looking for a Fat square sans with thin square counters. I've looked at California Grotesk and Compacta Compacta but they don't have the stoke variation or the super fat (ultra bold) weight I'm looking for. This looks like I've seen it everywhere but there's nothing in my specimen books or anywhere on myfonts.com. This doesn't seem to be manipulated but I've been wrong before. I've tried the "more fonts like this". Maybe I shouldn't work at nights anymore. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks.

Here's sample:

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> Looks like you were doing fine with Compacta -- whatever it is, I > imagine it's been stretched horizontally.

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Here are four simulations (with the original sample). I guess this helps prove Chesh's case. The sample of FC Permanent Headline was a test drive gif (from Precision Type) that I 'massaged' to approximate the original posted sample.

Other similar look: Jumbo (a.k.a. Jellybean), but note the uneven widths of the vertical strokes. Paramount type sims

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Correction: there was no outline added to the Compacta sample. (I copied the caption from the previous sample.)

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