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As people who know me here know, I'm not easily stumped, but this one has been bugging me for some time. So I'm throwing this out to the other expert spotters here. (First time for everything.)

These were grabbed from the movie Ed Wood (1994). This is the best I can do until the DVD is released (delayed multiple times already--I guess they're holding out for Martin Landau to do a comment track or something):

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The script is easy--Dom Diagonal slanted a bit more, but the condensed sans serif is what's driving me nuts. When Binderstyle came up this last week I thought that might be it, but no. There's one in the Solotype catalog that looks close called Glenlake Gothic, but it doesn't quite seem to match the lowercase you can see in Wood's sad bio at the bottom.

Any ideas?

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Correction: It looks like the DVD is out. I might have better samples later if nobody nails this soon.

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Mark, here are some samples I captured off my DVD. I was lucky to enought to have it in February. The DVD was recalled then for legal reasons (Great DVD, btw). Anyway, here they are.

The shortest movie ever made:

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One More:

PS> Martin Landau is on the excellent commentary track.

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Thanks, James!

Now that I can see it better, it does indeed have a lot in common with Binderstyle, but differs as well in significant ways. The unusual symetrical lowercase y and the lowercase g fit Binderstyle. The cap R and the lowercase t and f don't. Overall it's very Binderstyle-like, though.

I'm thinking now that it might be a modified version of Binderstyle. Hmmm.

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A couple of other differences with Binderstyle: The lowercase x-height is shorter and, in the larger titles, it is bolder and less condensed.

Captured from web.archive.org on 16 May 2005. view this capture