Help identifying this retro display font

Arnas23 June 2010 · 05:19

I have been reading this book called "Manual of graphic techniques 3" (old, but quite an interesting read) and one of the samples used there caught my eye.

I thought it's just a hand-drawn sample of type treatment, not a typeface itself, as I couldn't find any information about it in the credits. I like it so much, I was thinking of making the rest of the alphabet.

I guess I'm too naive and inexperienced, just recently stumbled into some artwork with the same looking type in it.

I assume there is a typeface, so I would like you to help me identifying it. I've attached a photograph of it (the "Mercury" one):

Riccardo Sartori23 June 2010 · 05:42

Letraset's Quicksilver by Dean Morris (http://new.myfonts.com/person/Dean_Morris/).
A distressed version is available from Typodermic:
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/typodermic/tight/

Riccardo Sartori27 June 2010 · 05:43

I'm wondering how some requests end up posted in the "Solved IDs" forum.
Shouldn't it be accessible only to moderators?

Arnas3 July 2010 · 05:53

Thanks for the help, riccard0. Quite inspiring birth story behind this typeface.

I think that's what the moderators did after your post, relocated the thread.

Florian Hardwig4 July 2010 · 02:35

No, I didn’t move this thread here, or any other of those in ‘Solved IDs’. Most of them were accidentally placed here by the original posters. More in the meta thread that Riccardo has started.

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