Which font is this?

[Jankie]

http://img435.imageshack.us/img435/2350/adg100197lh.gif

Hello :)
Which font is this og where can i download a look-alike font for free?

[annc]

It's Futura Black, and you can get it from MyFonts. Dunno about a free look-alike, but as it's a Bitstream font, you may find it lying around on a CD somewhere.

[dthomsen8]

What is the purpose of the font? Are you printiing, or using it on the web, or what?


I doubt you can find it for free, but the expert (Kathleen) hasn't replied yet.

[Jankie]

Thanks :)
It is only for private use

[ktinkel]

Which font is this og where can i download a look-alike font for free?That is Futura Black, and I know of no free copies.

There is a sort of weirdly altered version called Viking Stencil (http://simplythebest.net/fonts/fonts/viking_stencil.html) (named for a football team!) from a site called Simply the Best Fonts that has a section dedicated to stencil fonts — it might be a good place for you to poke around.

[Michael Rowley]

KT:

That is Futura Black, and I know of no free copies

I've got Futura Black BT, and I probably got it from a magazine cover disk (that is, unless Microsoft has distributed it). They sometimes put DTP programs (three or four versions old, of course) on cover disks, and it pays to explore them for fonts.

[ktinkel]

I've got Futura Black BT, and I probably got it from a magazine cover disk . . .Maybe so, but BT means Bitstream, and while they have bundled fonts — notably with Corel Draw — mostly they sell them.

[iamback]

I've got Futura Black BT, and I probably got it from a magazine cover disk (that is, unless Microsoft has distributed it). They sometimes put DTP programs (three or four versions old, of course) on cover disks, and it pays to explore them for fonts.I have two variants, even. The one you have, and one called Futura Black Win95BT - which suggests it was either released with Win95, or maybe it was from some disk specially for Win95... I bought a few cheap CDs with collections of stuff (clipart, fonts) once to have something to play with.

Curiously, the two look the same but when I switch between them in The Font Thing, the Win95BT "moves" down a bit within the display boxes (while all other Futura-family files "sit" on the same baseline in the boxes and have similar file names); so the font files cannot be identical (I may have a few differently-named duplicates, but not this one).

22 Futura files here (none installed, but I know I have them :)).

[Michael Rowley]

KT:

BT means Bitstream

Yes, I had noticed, particularly as Bitstream font files have a Bitstream copyright internally. But I have quite a number of Bitstream fonts, all of which I acquired from cover disks at some time. All are also pretty old versions (pre-1999), but that wouldn't affect people using them privately. They might have been with an early Corel program.