Typophile

Condensed Caps, Angled Terminals

reedenger

Hello All -

Here’s a mysterious sample. A set of condensed capitals used on Underoath’s Survive Kaleidoscope album. The image is small, and doesn’t quite capture the types strange slanted terminals. It’s almost like an extrusion or a jackboot fraktur.

Thanks for any ideas, and if I dig up more complete images I’ll add them.

- Reed

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Alternate Gothic,

What you seeing is not featuring any stylistic affectation per se—just used that way. The “O” is actually Ø used in Norwegian languages and some (many ?) others.

The Bitstream version seems to have the best kerning:
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/alternate-gothic/

Mikey :-)

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