Fonts used in cover art - Ian related

[Ocean Rain]

Does anyone know the name of the font on the covers of Mysterio and Proud To Fall (the ones where there's text), or is anyone savvy enough to find that out for me?

[Malbert]

Not me and not me :)

[JackT]

Does anyone know the name of the font on the covers of Mysterio and Proud To Fall (the ones where there's text), or is anyone savvy enough to find that out for me?

Brian, please move this to the fonts/typesetting subforum.

[Voodoo Billy]

Does anyone know the name of the font on the covers of Mysterio and Proud To Fall (the ones where there's text), or is anyone savvy enough to find that out for me?

I think you may have too much time on your hands.

[fat cherry]

Ignore them chum - not that I'm going ot be of any help either. Though that'd be a brilliantly geeky mobile app. Bit like Penny's shoes app in the big bang theory.

Trouble is, they may be something specific or something thats been tweaked by a cheeky designer - especially since this was from a time when mac might have been assuming he wasn't actually paying for it himself. Only got the bog standard fonts on my pc at work so nothing definitive - mysterio looks a bit copperplate gothic or, fnar, 'goudy' old style, but too smooth and curvey for either I think. Proud to fall looks a bit lucida-ish. And thats the closest I'm prepared to go to a definitive answer.

Chez

[Voodoo Billy]

I think that's the furthest from a definitive answer I've ever read.

[Ivan]

Back when I had my fansite (Bunnyweb Central), prior to my time with the official site, I used the Wide Latin font as a close-ish approximation.

[fat cherry]

cheers VB, your support is always appreciated.

[Voodoo Billy]

Back when I had my fansite (Bunnyweb Central), prior to my time with the official site, I used the Wide Latin font as a close-ish approximation.

Hey, I come here to be entertained.

[girlwithnoname]

I tried to Google mysterio + font and found out that a "Mysterio" font exists:




This doesn't answer the original question, however. As you were.

[Voodoo Billy]

Bloody hell, it's getting worse.

[Ocean Rain]

Back when I had my fansite (Bunnyweb Central), prior to my time with the official site, I used the Wide Latin font as a close-ish approximation.

Thank you.

VB- . Mind you, I didn't spend much time looking for them, it's just something that came up. When I was a teenager though, I did collect fonts, I would be all over it.

OK, THAT was geeky. ^

[the ghost of guitarplayer]

Font collection - how does one do that? Store varying font types on your computer and trade them with other font hobbyists over font collecting hobby trading websites. I assume that this was during the 80s, so the green font on IBM computers wasn't really collectable, whereas now they are quite retro and a sought after, valuable design. I guess you meant cutting pictures of varying types of fonts out of newspapers and magazines?

And did it lead on to another hobby that I know is very popular among modern font collecting hobbyists - although these days they tend to use e-mail and send it as a pdf attachment.

[Voodoo Billy]

And did it lead on to another hobby that I know is very popular among modern font collecting hobbyists -

I can think of one, though you'd have to put the scalpel away first due to health and safety concerns.

[Ocean Rain]

Font collection - how does one do that? Store varying font types on your computer and trade them with other font hobbyists over font collecting hobby trading websites. I assume that this was during the 80s, so the green font on IBM computers wasn't really collectable, whereas now they are quite retro and a sought after, valuable design. I guess you meant cutting pictures of varying types of fonts out of newspapers and magazines?

And did it lead on to another hobby that I know is very popular among modern font collecting hobbyists - although these days they tend to use e-mail and send it as a pdf attachment.

I was born in 1984, and somewhere in the latter half of the nineties, I got my first disc of fonts. But I like your story better.