As far as I know they’re all the same.

Or maybe I'm just trippin. But to me, this Aktuelle looks like a scan of a scan of a live trace of a scan of a xerox copy of a... well, you get the idea.

You could consider Fenway Park as a better quality alternative.

Fenway Park is definitely higher quality vector work.

That said... I must admit to being very particular about the style I want. For my taste, Fenway Park has too many parallel lines and a bit much contrast. And many of the caps don't work for me.

Maybe it's time to get busy in FontLab.

Here are both compared:

Bojev!

I feel like we are characters on a show called TCSI: The Web Files (Typographic Crime Scene Investigators).
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They are pretty close, actually. It looks like Aktuelle is a slightly modified and narrowed version of Opti Sport.

And so this raises the question of whether Opti Sport would also leave me disappointed.

Well, for the third alternative, I actually have Spoleto, the version by Novel Fonts that was used for the sample that Jan posted. I don't know that I can re-create the forensic view done by Bob. If you have limited typesetting you need, I would be glad to set some for you as a courtesy. E-mail me what you need at bowfinboy (at) seanet (dot) com.

- Mike Yanega

Here's an attempt to use Spoleto to approximate the original sample, without the leaves.

- Mike Yanega

Mike... you are too generous!

I will hit you off with an email.