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Gotham font anyone?

  • 04-09-2005 09:22PM
    #1
    alleepally
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,027 ✭✭✭


    Anyone got the Gotham font? I just need 4 quotes of a couple of lines each, done in the font. Should take no more than 2 or 3 minutes if someone were to type them up and email me a decent sized jpeg of the end result.

    Let me know thanks,

    Al.


Comments

  • #2
    Citizen_Erased
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭Citizen_Erased


    Would it be any of these?
    http://www.acidfonts.com/cgi-bin/csvsearch.pl?NAME=gotham&method=exact


  • #3
    angelofdeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭angelofdeath


    or this? http://simplythebest.net/fonts/fonts/gotham_nights.html


  • #4
    Shrimp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,645 ✭✭✭Shrimp


    or these

    http://www.dafont.com/en/search.php?q=Gotham


  • #5
    alleepally
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,027 ✭✭✭alleepally


    I should have been more specific. It's the Hoefler and Frere Jones Gotham font. I really don't want to spend $199 for just for 4 quote lines. I've been intrigued since I read an article in CA Graphic Design mag and a quote from a design firm that 80% of their clients opt for the Gotham font. So I want to do a test on visual appeal of various fonts for another forum I'm a member of.

    http://www.typography.com is their website btw.


  • #6
    Velcrow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 577 ✭✭✭Velcrow


    have this font ... not sure what your asking?


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  • #7
    alleepally
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,027 ✭✭✭alleepally


    As per the original post. I need someone to type up a number of quotes i have (I'm talking inspirational quotes of a couple of lines each) in whatever package, and email me the resulting jpeg or pdf or whatever. I then want to do a blind test on a web page, where I list 10 or 20 other quotes along in different fonts and see if people pick the quotes done in the Gotham font. It's just an experiment I want to do and need someone with the Gotham font to do up 4 or 5 quotes for me. I'll send you the quotes via PM or email...

    Thanks.

    Al


  • #8
    CuLT
    Subscribers Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭CuLT


    Secret quotes... I'm intrigued...


  • #9
    Velcrow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 577 ✭✭✭Velcrow


    Well I think you should send the makers of the font an email

    but for what you are discribing I would be breaking the licence agreemet for the font...

    Sorry for being a square :(

    FYI: Its worth every penny - a great font!


  • #10
    alleepally
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,027 ✭✭✭alleepally


    Velcrow wrote:
    Well I think you should send the makers of the font an email

    but for what you are discribing I would be breaking the licence agreemet for the font...

    Sorry for being a square :(

    FYI: Its worth every penny - a great font!

    ho hum then,I guess I will forget about my little test then.

    Just read the EULA, pretty restrictive. Looks to me that a design house couldn't even send a proof using this font via email.. would I be correct in that?

    PS - you don't have to apologise for sticking rigidly to the EULA.


  • #11
    Shrimp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,645 ✭✭✭Shrimp


    You could try get in contact with the compay who made the font, maybe they would be interested in letting you do it for free, seeing as It'd be a plug for their font. Worth a shot


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  • #12
    alleepally
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,027 ✭✭✭alleepally


    Shrimp wrote:
    You could try get in contact with the compay who made the font, maybe they would be interested in letting you do it for free, seeing as It'd be a plug for their font. Worth a shot

    I might do alright but these guys don't need plugs for their font with their impressive client list.


  • #13
    dangerman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭dangerman


    i know im not helping alleepally, but for what its worth i think that is a distinctly ordinary looking font and can't see any reason to use it over a bog standard helvetica, arial, tahoma, verdana etc.


  • #14
    alleepally
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,027 ✭✭✭alleepally


    dangerman wrote:
    i know im not helping alleepally, but for what its worth i think that is a distinctly ordinary looking font and can't see any reason to use it over a bog standard helvetica, arial, tahoma, verdana etc.

    I wonder what the fuss is too, but this quote from a designer in London that 80% of their clients choose it over any other font in a first round proposal with 20 to 30 ideas, sets my mind racing and wondering why.. hence my wanting to do a blind test. But I'll just put it on the backburner as it seems that even if I bought the font myself I couldn't even use it on a website anyway.


  • #15
    Velcrow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 577 ✭✭✭Velcrow


    well yes, you can over hype ...
    but to be fair it is well designed.
    It is having its 15 mins of fame just like "the sans", "frutiger", "avenir"....


  • #16
    lostexpectation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    i wouldn;t be surprise if you couldn't get some sort time/use sample of it enough for your purposes... google it


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