Typophile

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unknown

Hello ID hounds!
How's the weather been around here?

Below is a font that was apparently modified from another one. I need to know what font the original was.

hipderive

And if you feel inclined to comment about how good/bad the derivation is, feel free. Thanks much!

hhp

unknown

It definitely looks inspired by Handel Gothic to me, although there might be something even closer from an independent foundry.

Also, it looks to me like the figures were just optically scaled down from cap height. They look too puny.

unknown

Thanks Metadox - it's close.

But you guys can do better than this, come on! :-)

hhp

unknown

There's something really unsettling about the way the horizontal strokes are thicker at the bottom than at the top of the characters. It feels like a mistake.

It looks to me a bit like an old film font called Modula (not the Emigre one).

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