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- flashbender0
this thread amuses me.
- rainman0
meeeeee, too
- moamoa0
this thing is freakin me..... awwww
- Corvo0
^ Fuck - it's 99% Franklin. Maybe different software options and/or platforms render differently, but that's as close as we've got. Some designers even work pixel by pixel on exported gifs to enhance legibility - I did that once.
- Corvo0
This is the most perfectionist thread that ever occurred in the history of the whole god damned Internet.
- vrmbr0
get a life people.
seriously. this is getting out of hand.
- BannedKappa0
Zurich Condensed if it hasn't been said...
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bit…
- rainman0
come on... it's actually quite entertaining
- vrmbr0
In essence this could be related, however, Franklin Gothic is a realist sans-serif typeface designed by Morris Fuller Benton (1872–1948) in 1902. The typeface is one of over 200 typefaces designed by Benton. There is an assumption that this typeface was named after Benjamin Franklin. “Gothic” is an increasingly archaic term meaning sans-serif, which is found primarily in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The larger family, including condensed and extra condensed, was designed and released over the period of 1902–1912. Franklin Gothic was originally designed as a typeface with a single weight and only two variations in width. Franklin Gothic has been used in many advertisements and headlines in newspapers. The typeface continues to maintain a high profile appearing in a variety of media from books to billboards. Franklin Gothic has an extra bold weight with a combination of subtle irregularities, tapering of strokes near junctions, in its roman form. Franklin Gothic has several widths and weights including Franklin Gothic book, medium, demi, heavy, condensed, and extra condensed. Victor Caruso drew the multi-weight family for the International Typeface Corporation (ITC) in 1980. Caruso’s redrawing of Franklin Gothic for ITC consist of a slightly enlarged x-height and a moderately condensed lowercase alphabet. Other characteristics of this typeface consist of organic features that distinguish it from the geometric sans serifs.
But..
It's impossible to say, because digital versions of Franklin Gothic fonts have been produced by many foundries, such as URW (as URW Franklin Gothic), International Typeface Corporation (as ITC Franklin Gothic, ITC Franklin), Adobe (as Franklin Gothic, Franklin Gothic Std), Monotype Imaging (as Monotype Franklin Gothic).
Franklin Gothic that are shipped with Microsoft products are based on ITC Franklin Gothic.
Franklin Gothic version 1 is distributed with Microsoft Office since Office 97 SR1a. Distributed fonts include Book, Book Italic, Demi, Demi Cond, Demi Italic, Heavy, Heavy Italic, Medium, Medium Cond, Medium Italic. Version 2 of the fonts are shipped with Microsoft Office 2003. Version 2 of Franklin Gothic Book, Book Italic, Demi, Demi Italic, Medium Cond are found in Microsoft Works 2002. Windows XP includes Franklin Gothic Medium and Franklin Gothic Medium Italic version 2.20. Windows Vista include version 5 of the fonts.You see?
That's why.
- vrmbr0
BUt you know, Franklin Gothic was originally conceived as only one weight. Over the next several years, the ATF family was expanded to include italic, condensed, condensed shaded, extra condensed and wide variants. For some unknown reason no light or intermediate weights were ever created. In 1979, under license from ATF, International Typeface Corporation created four new weights – Book, Medium, Demi and Heavy – in roman and italic versions. Designed by Victor Caruso, these new designs matched the pure characteristics of the original Franklin Gothic, adhering closely to the subtle thick and thin pattern of the original ATF typeface while featuring a slightly enlarged lowercase x-height. This increased x-height – which improved the typeface's appearance and readability – and the availability of larger family made ITC Franklin Gothic a preferred choice when setting large blocks of sans serif text. Franklin Gothic was named by Morris Fuller Benton in honor of Benjamin Franklin, whom Benton greatly admired for his significant contributions to American history and culture, and to printing in particular.
- fifty500
franklin gothic?
- vrmbr0
Could also be http://www.fontshop.com/search/?… or http://www.fontshop.com/search/?… , or maybe http://www.fontshop.com/fontfeed…
- rainman0
Yeah.. that WTFont doesn't work very well for small text like that
- Corvo0
Ok, it's now time for an interlude: