(x) Fat 70s display typeface 'Armchair Liberation' - Turtle {Mark S}

Pookeyblow15 January 2010 · 19:53

What's this? Does anyone know?

Mark Simonson15 January 2010 · 23:02

I don't know if there is a digital version, but it was called Turtle.

Thingy15 January 2010 · 23:05

I've got a 1974 Letraset catalogue that calls it "Turtle".

nina16 January 2010 · 08:54

This is really cool. Wish there was a digital version. Look at that "T"!

Lex Kominek16 January 2010 · 12:13

I'm smelling a fontstruct opportunity :-)

- Lex

Lex Kominek19 January 2010 · 22:03

Does anyone have a good scan of the entire alphabet? I'm working on a fontstruct version :-)

- Lex

Pookeyblow20 January 2010 · 12:50

What's the name of the catalogue? Are those catalogues hard to find?

Would be great if someone could scan the font. I was thinking about creating a digital version too!

-Hans

Lex Kominek20 January 2010 · 16:00

It would most likely be the Letraset catalogue, showing which fonts were available as rub-down lettering. I have a 1985 version, but unfortunately Turtle isn't in it :-(

- Lex

Mark Simonson20 January 2010 · 16:55

It must have come and gone fairly quickly. None of the Letraset catalogs or brochures I have (and I have lots, going back to the Seventies) shows it.

I only was able to ID it because it's listed in Dan X. Solo's catalog. Letraset was never in the film font business (as far as I know), yet all their fonts wound up in film font libraries.

Bendy20 January 2010 · 17:30

The M's pretty special too.

Pookeyblow11 January 2011 · 19:45

Getting back to this thread as I have a question:

Has anyone found a catalogue or know someone who maybe got one?

Mark Simonson11 January 2011 · 21:43

Thingy said it was in a Letraset catalog from 1974. I've got a lot of old Letraset catalogs and brochures from back then, but not one that shows Turtle. Apparently, Thingy has (or had) one.

Justin_Ch12 January 2011 · 05:27

Maybe she can help.

http://squirrelbasket.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/design-icons-letraset/