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What font is the VW "Drivers Wanted"?

What font is the VW "Drivers Wanted"?

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austinvw: FW:Official VW Response "zeek the geek" <zeektexas> Sat, 2 May 1998 07:34:42 -0500
Re: [gti-vr6] somewhat off-topic/VW font "Todd Taylor" <ttaylortoddtaylor> Sat, 10 Oct 1998 17:34:18 -0500
Re: [gti-vr6] somewhat off-topic/VW font Jyoteen Majmudar <jyoteenuswest> Sat, 10 Oct 1998 08:41:43 -0800



From owner-austinvwpswtech Sat May 2 07:37 CDT 1998
From: "zeek the geek" <zeektexas>
To: "AustinVW" <austinvwpswtech>
Subject: austinvw: FW:Official VW Response
Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 07:34:42 -0500
  
Here's the email I got from the VW page SiteMaster...
Guess we'll have to find that font somewhere else.




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> Dear Zeek,
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> Thank you for contacting Volkswagen.  The VW font is VW Futura, but I'm
> afraid you can't get it anywhere. It's proprietary.  I am sorry it is
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From gti-vr6-ownerdev.tivoli Sat Oct 10 18:08 CDT 1998
From: "Todd Taylor" <ttaylortoddtaylor>
To: <gti-vr6dev.tivoli>, "PT" <zone71teleport>
Subject: Re: [gti-vr6] somewhat off-topic/VW font
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 17:34:18 -0500
  
To all who might care:

The font we use on our fliers (which seems to look pretty close to the VW
font) is called Kabel BK BT.   It is a True-Type Font, and I can email it to
anyone who is interested.

Sincerely,
Todd Taylor
www.venommotorsports


>Anyone know which typeface is used for the "Drivers Wanted" logo?  I
>remember coming across that info once before but can't remember where it
>was.
>
>Thought the info was on Venom Motorsport's page but it's not there....
>
>TIA
>
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From gti-vr6-ownerdev.tivoli Sat Oct 10 23:24 CDT 1998
From: Jyoteen Majmudar <jyoteenuswest>
To: "Todd Taylor" <ttaylortoddtaylor>, <gti-vr6dev.tivoli>,
Subject: Re: [gti-vr6] somewhat off-topic/VW font
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 08:41:43 -0800
  
At 5:34 PM -0500 10/10/98, Todd Taylor wrote:
>To all who might care:
>
>The font we use on our fliers (which seems to look pretty close to the VW
>font) is called Kabel BK BT.   It is a True-Type Font, and I can email it to
>anyone who is interested.
>
>Sincerely,
>Todd Taylor
>www.venommotorsports
>
>
>>Anyone know which typeface is used for the "Drivers Wanted" logo?  I
>>remember coming across that info once before but can't remember where it
>>was.
>>
>>Thought the info was on Venom Motorsport's page but it's not there....
>>
>>TIA
>>

Actually, the typeface is Futura. I don't know the precise type foundry.
There are many versions of Futura by many type vendors. I can e-mail the
*original* Futura family. Of course, this is a Postscript font, Macintosh
only version.

Please let me know. By the way, the typeface that they use for the gauges
is Eurostyle, or a variant thereof, in case you need to replicate the
cluster dials.

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