Typophile

Celtic and Chelsea football shirt numbers

Sander Neijnens

I can't identify the font used for the shirt numbers of Celtic and Chelsea (in Champions league games). It's a very bold Sans with a thin centered line. The 8 and 4 are curious characters. A picture of the Celtic 10 can be found on:
http://www.goal.com/DWH_Club.aspx?idSocieta=223&idStagione=9
and clicking the left picture.
A picture of the Chelsea 8 is to be found on:
http://www.chelseafc.com/matchreport.asp?id=268638&nav=Navigation+-+Matches
The Chelsea 22 can be viewed on:
http://www.chelseafc.com/matchreport.asp?ID=268654
Any suggestions?

wizard7926

I've found it very hard to find a good shot of the letters from those sites you've given... I assume you're looking for the numbers on the back of the jerseys, correct?

You could look through Mike's Lined Fonts ID Guide, but I haven't found anything to match exactly.

How about Tokyo or maybe Hotel to get you started?

Sander Neijnens

Thanks Ryan. I didn't know there were so many lined fonts! But none of them is a perfect match. Specially the 8 is quite strange with a very small upper en tall lower oval.

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