Urban Outfitters text
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- pancakeweb
Uh - please skip all the UO haters discussion... I'm just wondering about the headline text from their catalog. Is that a font that they based that off of or is it completely custom?
I'm specifically talking about the gothic/ripped looking text. I think it's pretty righteous inside with the flat black.
- clerk0
link?
- pancakeweb0
http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/s…
As you flip through the catalog though you'll see it's different on almost every page. But it's definately a family of sorts.
- rasko40
just looks like frette fractur or some such thats been tweaked for each headline as you said.
- ********0
balboa would prob know
- clerk0
looks like they're fooling around with scribe type.
- pancakeweb0
Uh, I can't even find this font except for an obscure reference on some board about historical fonts.
Do you have?
- Spix0
I went to one of the stores and in there they where selling fruti of the loom undergramet t-shitrs that they had made slightly yellow for 15 dollars(you can buy 3 for 5 on walmart, white offcousre).
Maybe they did somethign simualr with the font?
- pancakeweb0
anyone else have an idea?
- Mimio0
Looks like hand-made titling.
- tparsons0
Type Headers
Print Headers
Trace over Headers with pen
Scan in tracing
Place into document
send to printer
recieve catalog
mail to consumers
consumers buyRound and round it goes
- mook150
Not sure if this helps you but Kevin Lyons used to be their art director and he loved to do hand lettering.(cool stuff, check it out) If hes still there maybe its his stuff. If not, I'm pretty sure its hand done anyway.
- grayhood0
Kevin is still there. i don't know if he did the lettering or not, or what font it is. but def try Balboa, he ought to know.
- ********0
its either tweaked or hand-drawn.. either way you're winning.
hand drawn is a great excercise though! lots of fun
- instantok0
click on p. 7
why not ask him?
...i dunno if he made it but he works at urban and uses it a bunch
- ********0
hmmmmmmmm, I think the font is called: OwnedByTheGOP.ttf
- ********0
flash shopping.... I thought the code to that shit was bad enough before... just like the quality of their products- it just keeps getting worse
- balb0a0
We asked Rick Santorum to draw those headers... bet you didn't know he was a bang-up hand letterer!
:P
Actually, 99% of it was hand drawn, streamlined and hand set in illustrator.
There was lots of digging around for interesting reference until a general direction was agreed upon...
We looked at everything from obvious stuff llike Diploma to more obscure sources like medieval manuscripts, victorian greeting cards, and decorative calligraphic lettering.
Everyone busted out their own alphabets, and then spun off a bunch of variations and mutations.
If pancakeweb is referring to the the header type in the Fall04 catalog -- most of it was hand drawn by Jeremy Dean (house33).
It was based on earlier stuff that Andy Beach and Mike Perry (midewestisbest) had done in the Early Fall catalog. Mike did the cover logo.
p.s. I wish you hadn't pointed at that "online catalog" page... we still have to update that section (both visually and code-wise) -- it's a third party product that has some limitations. But up until three weeks ago, Mike and I have been the only ones producing the site design and content and packaging and everything else, so a few things have been neglected.
It'll get better when we re-skin the site in Spring.
Hope that was informative...
- ********0
the inquisitive minds at Newstoday salute you, balb0a.
*hands you a beer
- pancakeweb0
wow. all of the information that I ever wanted to know. Sorry about the link, but the good people needed to know what I was talking about.
much thanks... much thanks and nice work.
- toe-knee0
'if your gonna have a cuppa have a club.'
they were big in ireland anyway. very tasty and heaps of chocolate on 'em