Getty Museum - Foundry Form Sans & Serif {Hrant}

hrant1 Dec 2001

Today I was at the Getty Museum, and they had an exhibit
called "Devices of Wonder". Anyway, throughout the exhibit
as well as the support materials they're using a couple of
nice typefaces, a sans and a serif, which look related.

The sans especially looks very familiar, but I just can't
put my finger on it (all I know is, it looks very Unger).
As for the serif, it looks like a variant of a recently
released font, but there's some notable differences.

So here's a scan:
http://www.themicrofoundry.com/other/getty.gif

I'd really like to find out what these
two fonts are, and who designed them.

Note: Please do not email me any fonts!
I'd just like to know what the fonts are.

Thanks.

hhp

hrant1 Dec 2001#

Here's a better view of the sans:
http://www.themicrofoundry.com/other/getty2.gif

hhp

hrant2 Dec 2001#

Argo was my first guess too, and it's certainly close... but it's not exactly the same. :-( The most obvious difference I saw is the UC "M".

hhp

hrant4 Dec 2001#

OK, in case anybody's interested, I found 'em:
http://www.thefoundrystudio.co.uk/formSans.html
http://www.thefoundrystudio.co.uk/formSerif.html

hhp

anonymous1 Dec 2001#

I believe the sans is Argo, from the Dutch Type Library. Here's a link:

http://www.dutchtypelibrary.nl/DTLArgo.html

The serif looks awfully familiar, too, but I can't place it.

Marc

anonymous3 Dec 2001#

The serif font reminds me of (but clearly isn't) Martin Majoor

maxmara25 Sep 2011#

Hi,
I am also interested in what you found - but unfortunately I could not get through to the links you provided; may you please let me know the name of the Sans font?
Many thanks in advance.
Max

hrant25 Sep 2011#

I guess they moved:
http://www.foundrytypes.co.uk/foundry_form_sans/formSansMedium.html
http://www.foundrytypes.co.uk/foundry_form_serif/formSerifMedium.html

Also:
http://www.davidquaydesign.com/news/f_form.php

hhp

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