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ZYZZYVA! Me! Interview! (Very exciting!) zyzzyva.org/2020/12/23/q-a… @zyzzyvamag
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Josh Korwin
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Josh Korwin
@jaykay109
Born to font. (he/him)
Portland, Oregon Katılım Nisan 2009
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@JesseThorn Before they closed up the shop, I had an amazing opportunity to visit Colby Poster Printing Co., who were responsible for most of those fluorescent split-fountain show cards. Photos of the facility and some of their work here: flickr.com/photos/jaykay1…
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@starwarsfonts @Mantia @LTypI House Industries eventually bought the entire Photo-Lettering archive and digitized a lot of the photo faces. I think the Simian release happened before the acquisition, but that was definitely part of the reference material. (2/2)
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@starwarsfonts @Mantia @LTypI Bringing this full-circle: the original Planet of the Apes logotype was lettered by the incredible Ed Benguiat, who worked for Photo-Lettering, Inc. Not sure of the timeline, but PLINC then offered it as full font (“Planet”). So less lack-of-imagination, more named-after. (1/2)
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one of my hobbies is collecting examples of of fonts being used to write their own names (or something very similar). seen here ROSLYN GOTHIC, FUTURA (lucky sticker) and MARVIN
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@StarWars5W @starwarsfonts @FontsInUse Could be! I wouldn’t rule it out. All of these examples *could* even be custom lettered. But I still have a hunch that some version of this face was commercially available at the time as a photo font for typesetting.
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now if we could solve this one just as cleanly
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okay who wants to help?? in many ways similar to NEIL BOLD, with maybe the biggest difference in the G and S. third example here seems to be customized but similar enough that i think it's the same font. @FontsInUse any ideas? i'd really appreciate it!
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it's possible we won't ever get a satisfying answer for the lando calrissian covers, folks. we should start making peace with that
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@starwarsfonts @jaykay109 These are all from 1980(1983?) to 1988, by Ballantine and affiliated imprints in NYC, AFAICT. The typeface is not shown in VGC’s 1982 catalog either, and my understanding is that VGC didn’t add any originals in later years. There is always the possibility of a proprietary design.
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@starwarsfonts @FontsInUse Also worth looking into any other identifiable faces used on other covers by Ballantine in the ’70s. If we can narrow down which providers they definitively worked with for photo typesetting, we might narrow down the list of suspects.
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@starwarsfonts @FontsInUse Nice catch! In order to produce the overlapping letters and tight kerning, an artist (either at the lettering house or the designer working for the publisher) would have had to do some paste-up work to create the camera-ready art. So some redrawn variations are within reason.
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@jaykay109 @FontsInUse at the very least this gives us a wider sample set! though i did notice that the gifford novels have some slight differences like the notch in the N and the shape of the counters
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@jaykay109 @FontsInUse that's how this all started! (side note: i wanted so desperately for it to just be NEIL BOLD cause of the author's name)
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@starwarsfonts Sure thing, I love a good ID challenge! Here are some of the other specimens, shown in the One Line Manual of Styles.
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hooooly shit you did it! i'm for sure adding DUNE. this feels like big news thank you so much this rocks
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@starwarsfonts Bingo: it’s Davison Art Nouveau from Photo-Lettering. Here is a shot of it in the third Alphabet Thesaurus. @FontsInUse has a page for it that could use some of these examples!
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@starwarsfonts Bingo: it’s Davison Art Nouveau from Photo-Lettering. Here is a shot of it in the third Alphabet Thesaurus. @FontsInUse has a page for it that could use some of these examples!
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🚨NON STAR WARS FONT TALK🚨
until saturday i'd never seen the 'dune font' outside of frank herbert books, and it's been generally accepted that they were lettered just for his work, but i somehow found TWO examples, both with alts and swashes
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