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Want to recreate old poster - what is this font?

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From: Michael_Mueller-Hillebrand
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:07

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In the 1980s I was involved in creating a poster in screen-printing technique (two colors!) and I seem to remember we prepared the type using rub-on letters that were then enlarged. I already found the main type to be best resembled by Compacta (and not Helvetica UltraCompressed), but we had a "LIVE" sticker on the poster with slanted letter ends at the L and E, see here:

 <http://www.the-magictones.de/LIE.gif>

I already tried Identifont and uploaded the file to WhatTheFont, to no avail.

Any hints or ideas?

Thanks a lot,

- Michael

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