Below are some scans I made of Anthroplogie's November lookbook. Although the photos are readily available online, the beautiful typography is conspicuously missing from their website. I used to throw these lookbooks away as soon as I got them (because they only reminded me of how broke I am), but now I love to look at them: Anthro's aesthetic sensibility is so sympatico with my own, I just can't tear my eyes away from their print catalogs.
The large decorative font they've use below is so lovely, flat, geometric, and clean, with extreme stroke contrast and a definitively vintage look. My favorite element has to be the unique long, sweeping tails/ascenders/descenders/etc. I actually re-drew it in Illustrator (minus all the long tails) so I could produce a large enough image to send through Myfonts.com's font identifying program, WhatTheFont. Unfortunately, I seem to have stumped them. If anyone recognizes this typeface, please tell me what it is!
3 comments:
'O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! i am smitten with this font!
I suspect that this font was custom designed in-house. Look closely at the "ND" pairs in "OF LAND AND SKY". They're different; one D has a ball and the other doesn't, and one N has a descender with a ball and the other doesn't. Their designer either made it from scratch or modifies it heavily in each use case.
I noticed that too, Nathan. There are also two different "K" letterforms. I think your suggestion is very possible, especially since I struck out with the font identifier. However, I have seen many display typefaces that offer a separate "alternate" font set, especially if the designer is having fun with serifs, terminals, ascenders, and descenders. In the event that's not the case here, I think this is a font worth learning how to draw--I'm certainly not above appropriating an amazing custom font for my own use!
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