ID this font?
 

In the chat rooms of warcraft 3 (not world of warcraft, although might be the same font, I am not familiar) I love the font used. I was wondering if anyone could ID it for me.

I have attached an image.

Well, my first guess was garamond, simply by looking at the P. But then I took a closer look at your font there and realized it was without serifs. So I opened up my font book and started to look for a garamond look alike that was sans serifs.

I think that was the moment I realized that I might be doing just a bit too much advertising in my life right now...

Anyway, I looked at the font again and realized that while it didn't have full serifs, the ends do point out a bit and thickened towards the end. Thus, I'm going to guess that it's a proprietary font that is loosely based on Garamond with serifs.

Hmmm bummer. I was hoping it is out there somewhere.

With a little searching you might be able to find a very similar font. But I'm not sure where you might find it...

At small size, like your example, it looks like Optima to me. It should already be installed on your system (don't know if they changed this on Leopard).

Try this:

http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

Could be Charlotte Sans Medium.

Maybe Optima Bold? See attached picture for comparison. There are some differences, like the vertical height, and the question mark. But it looks pretty close.

Trevor

The b's and the p's are different (though you don't have an example there.) In optima they connect with the stem, in the Warcraft 3 font, they don't, kind of like Garamond.

According to this thread on warboards.org, the font is Fritz Quadrata.

I can't tell for sure, but it looks pretty close.

£19 for a FONT?!?!?!

thats messed up

Why? £19 is quite inexpensive for a font. A collection of Adobe fonts costs around $2700.

Trevor

You should try making a font sometime. There's so much work to do if you want it to work under all conditions. Interletter spacing, punctuation design, etc. it just goes on and on. At the end you'll want to be paid more than £19.

Unless you did a quick, cheap knockoff or pirate font that would look awful on anything high resolution. That's what the free/cheap fonts are like.

P.S. Yeah, it does look more like Fritz Quadrata.

The real problem with IDing a font is that the differences are so subtle. To be honest, it looks to me like the n only has serifs that go off to the right, am I wrong? Especially on the typed text it seems easy to see.

I know it's not Optima because I have a fetish for Optima and can recognize it anywhere. But yeah looks like that Fritz one is it, although Garamond is pretty close.

I do want that font though... To bad it's not free.

The work of a font designer
 

Indeed! A couple of years ago, I did a magazine interview with award winning font designer Magnus Rakeng and one of his customers, Jugendstilsenteret (the Art Nouveau Centre) in Ålesund.

The double interview focused on the development of a font based on the handwriting of Hagbarth Schytte-Berg, one of the key Art Nouveau architects behind the rebuilding town of Ålesund after the town was razed by fire.

The amount of work and aesthetic considerations that went into the font design astounded me!

I would, however, not be astonished if there is a higher portion of graphic designers that have unpaid for fonts on their computer, than there are teenagers with pirated mp3 music. ;)

— ArcticStones

*jaw drops*

Try Asian fonts with 5000+ glyphs. I don't do fonts myself but the designer I code for does. Apparently making a Japanese font takes 3 guys an entire year, working full time.

Still think £19 is expensive?

One of these days someone will figure out a program that applies style changes to all the glyphs in a font, possibly making it so that you only have to do minor tweeks after a style is applied. That person will be very rich...

you know, i think i'll pass on that....

Anything like this?

In my defense, Adobe is very rich :D.

Try this
 

Try frizQuadrata. Good luck

John