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Article #117Re: Want to recreate old poster - what is this font?
From: tomhodgins
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:26
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:26
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On Jan 21, 6:07 pm, Michael_Mueller-Hillebr...@adobeforums.com wrote: > 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 Looks like Kabel to me
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