Typophile

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None of these are exact matches:

Pearl Jam looks a bit like Dime Museum, but heavier.

For the "With Sleater Kinney" you could try something like Old Towne No 536

FF Zapata light is similiar to the two bottom ones.

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Christian Marclay looks like Hefty to me. I think it's based on an old metal face called Hellenic Wide.

I loved Guitar Drag.

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A digital version of Helenic Wide used to be available from Precisiontype.com prior to their going out of business, I'm not sure who (if anyone) sells it these days.

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There's another digital font based on Hellenic Wide called Biggen, which is readily (though I suspect illegally) downloadable from the web. I don't know of a legit source for it.

One (very dodgy looking) site that has it for download includes the following copyright notice, presumably extracted from the font file:



quote:

The IMSI MasterFonts Collection, tm 1995, 1996 IMSI (International Microcomputer Software Inc.) Digital typeface data Copyright (c)1993,1996 Weatherly Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Redistribution strictly prohibited.



Does anyone know if this collection is still commercially available?

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As a Hellenic Wide alternative, try Platon, from CSA Images:

http://www.csaimages.com/results.asp?image=FNT018&wwwflag=&imagepos=18

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