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BrotherWilliam
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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 6:51 am Post subject: 2019 Newspaper revisited - The Masthead font |
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I've been trying to recreate Deckard's newspaper from the original Blade Runner movie. I've scrolled through forums and examined the commendable efforts made by Nyzeki. I've read through Typeset In the Future and got some great information there, but so far I'm not convinced the font for the masthead on Deckard's newspaper has ever been found. Nyzeki used a stylised Old English type font but I don't think it's the right one. Based on other comments from the typeset blog I think it may be one of the Eurostile family font's but with shorter stems.
Font sites haven't been able to scan the image properly or when they do I get very weird results.
Anyone else got some ideas?
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rickhoward Community Member

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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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I think that Nyzeki's banner used American Text, and agree that the prop version was not. I've been looking through old press-on lettering catalogs, but no joy as yet.
Would anyone in the group with the 4k version if the film be willing to pull a few screen caps? Maybe a better view is available... |
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MarsVoyager Community Member

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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:11 pm Post subject: Masthead font suggestion |
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I think the font Teniers is quite close, except the S and perhaps the e which are closer to Eurostile. _________________ No artificial animals were harmed in the production |
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joberg Community Member
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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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I should look through my old Letraset stash; I can't, I'm in Brussels right now... |
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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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Hey! Enjoy Brussels! sorry  |
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rickhoward Community Member

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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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I had come across Teniers today as well. It has been floating around in the back of my mind until I recalled an Art Nouveau poster project I did back in the day...
I also think it is workable, at least largely a match aside from the previously mentioned letter forms. We can't say that there wasn't some artistic mixing and matching of pres-on type, or that the banner wasn't simply hand-drawn. I love, and hate, digging around for fonts from the dawn of digital typsetting.
Ever closer...
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BrotherWilliam
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for identifying the Teniers font. I think it's a pretty close match. I'll see what I can do with an alternate S but it looks good otherwise. |
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joberg Community Member
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2018 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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TFS the Teniers font (even if the S doesn't quite match)  |
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BrotherWilliam
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 7:58 am Post subject: |
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So, I've done some digging on Prop Summit and a few other places and I think I've managed a reasonable version of the English side of The Independent Sentinel. I got Teniers and I've substituted a Eurostyle S for the masthead. Still needs some tweeking though.
I've had a look through NYzeki's old Japanese site and run that through google translate but I speak zero Japanese beyond what I remember from the old John Rhys Davies Shogun series
Anyone here speak (or at least read) passable Japanese to work out lettering basics? |
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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If anyone needs a custom font, let me know. _________________
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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Looking good! |
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