OUGD404 - Identifying Fonts

In last weeks design principles session we all had to bring in five typefaces, and the task was to pick someone elses five typefaces and then figure out what they were called by using Identifont. There is a device that allows you to identify specific fonts by answering key questions about the letterforms, like this one:

After a series of questions I found the typefaces that Tristan had chosen: 

 

Name: Broadway

Date: 1925

Designer: Morris Fuller Benton

Publisher: Linotype

Price: $26 from myfonts 

Used In: Broadway Sandwich Bar shop front

Name: Vinetta

Date: 1973

Designer: Ernst Volker

Publisher: Bitstream

Price: $24.75 from myfonts

Name: Letter Gothic

Date: 1962

Designer: Roger Roberson

Publishers: Adobe and Monotype

Copywright: Monotype Classic fonts

Price: $29 from myfonts

Used In: IBM on their Selectric typewriter

Information: It is a monospaced type, which is typical of typewriter fonts.

Name: ITC Black Tulip
Date: 1997
Designer: Dudley Rees
Publishers: ITC and Linotype
Copywright: ITC/Fontek
Price: $29 from myfonts

Name: American Typewriter Std Light
Date: 1974
Designers: Joel Kaden and Tony Stan
Price: $29 from Adobe
Optical Size: Made to be used a 1 pica
Made For: Can be used for business correspondence