A free font similar to Interstate? 2014-08-30 03:33:12 UTC #1. Does anybody know of a freely available font that is similar in looks to Interstate? Just wondering.
By David Berlow || Meeting Tobias Frere-Jones can be a forgettable experience, but only if you don’t talk to him. Reserved is his natural state. But below the surface lie exceptional versatility, observational skills, and inventiveness. This all can be seen in the early typefaces he developed at Font Bureau. Gathered here, from Garage Gothic via Interstate to the Poynter and Benton series, and on to the fanciful ones, are those early families: effective, practical, timeless, unique.
Garage Gothic began as fallen receipts from a Brooklyn parking garage. Tobias didn’t have a car, and I never knew him to drive, so I assumed at the time he walked past the garage and found them, or walked past the garage to find them. Either way, what he found was not nearly as interesting as what he made.
Interstate began when the specifications for highway signage fell into Tobias’ hands. For some time he pored over it and we discussed the differences between signage and printage, before he began slowly designing a new family. There were plenty of typographic diversions on the way, leading to the extensive, multifaceted series Interstate is today.
Poynter began as a well-publicized study of modern newspaper types circa 1990. I was mystified by Mike Parker’s advice on a proper direction, but Tobias heard and saw something that took several years to become roman, italic and the first system of graded weights in response to newspaper printing issues.
Those, and more, are now available in updated font formats and progressively released for web use, even after all these years.
Someone asked earlier, 'Hello,I have recieved a pdf that uses the font 'Interstate-light', I have asked for this font from our prep department. They use MAC's so they converted to TrueType for us. I installed the fonts including one called Interstate-light, however, in my fonts list I only show Interstate. Should this be a selectable font from a font list or is 'light' a style that needs to be applied, such as bold, underline, or italic?
Urgent'
I am having a very, very similar problem. I tried what it said in the solution for the previous one, but it didn't work. Is it possible to receive the files from the previous exchange -- just to rule out the possibility of an inherent problem with the typeface. (That's the only thing I think could be the problem.)
Any other suggestions are always welcomed. I need this for a presentation, and ... man, I'm starting to worry.
If you have any other ideas, please reply to them. If nothing else works ... we'll try to figure something else out.
Any urgent help will be appreciated.
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