Boards of Canada Boards of Canada Typography

[Guest hayesj23]

One thing that always impresses me about BoC is their choice of fonts on their album covers. Does anyone know if there is a good list of which fonts they use and who chose them?

[azatoth]

some modification of bauhaus, innit...

[oscillik]

http://bocpages.org/wiki/Fonts

[Guest Dogboy73]

Blimey, we're really scraping the barrel now!!

[chassis]

I always though Vibert's was better.

[Guest hayesj23]

http://bocpages.org/wiki/Fonts

 

thanks.

[YELLOW]

AE fonts are better

 

 

 

 

and yes, scraping the barrel indeed

[Guest hayesj23]

and yes, scraping the barrel indeed

 

why?

[Guest Dogboy73]

and yes, scraping the barrel indeed

 

why?

Well, put it this way. Wouldn't we much rather be talking about something BoC are actually doing rather than what fonts they use on their covers?!

[chassis]

and yes, scraping the barrel indeed

 

why?

Nobody likes BoC fans, not even BoC.

[ZoeB]

Geogaddi looks a bit like VAG Rounded to me. Nice, soft, non-threatening. The kind of typeface you'd use to disassociate your car company from Nazism.

[mcbpete]

Geogaddi looks a bit like VAG Rounded

*childishly sniggers*

[murve33]

Admittedly, those are nice fonts. Either way though, lol at the bocpages having a page devoted to fonts.

[Guest all_purpose_sandpaper]

Geogaddi looks a bit like VAG Rounded to me. Nice, soft, non-threatening. The kind of typeface you'd use to disassociate your car company from Nazism.

[dr lopez]

Geogaddi looks a bit like VAG Rounded to me. Nice, soft, non-threatening. The kind of typeface you'd use to disassociate your car company from Nazism.

lol indeed

[Guest SoundPermutation]

anyone know this one http://bocpages.org/wiki/File:Boards-of-canada--sticker-06.jpg

[Joyrex]

anyone know this one http://bocpages.org/...-sticker-06.jpg

 

I think that's hand-manipulated (the lower case letters were scaled up to meet the upper case x-heights). It seems apparent in the "d" of "canada".

 

Also, I hadn't seen that sticker in a long, long time...

[jules]

yea it is upper and lower avant garde

 

[oscillik]

the classic autechre 'ae' logo uses that font also. in case people didn't know.

[Guest never the machine forever]

the classic autechre 'ae' logo uses that font also. in case people didn't know.

 

The IDM font.

[kaen]

anyone know this one http://bocpages.org/...-sticker-06.jpg

Also, I hadn't seen that sticker in a long, long time...

that's my picture/sticker, i have a ton of them in an envelope somewhere that i traded with some dude years ago.

[acroyear]

anyone know this one http://bocpages.org/...-sticker-06.jpg

Also, I hadn't seen that sticker in a long, long time...

that's my picture/sticker, i have a ton of them in an envelope somewhere that i traded with some dude years ago.

 

I love that one. It's in my car window.

[ChrisRyder]

the classic autechre 'ae' logo uses that font also. in case people didn't know.

 

The IDM font.

 

Is there a similar dedicated Ae wiki for stuff like this?

I remember spending some quality time in photoshop finding the right font with the right kerning, height and width modification of err i think it was helvetica to make home made quaristice era covers of some of their live sets and it would be a shame to let that knowledge go to waste.

[oscillik]

the classic autechre 'ae' logo uses that font also. in case people didn't know.

 

The IDM font.

 

Is there a similar dedicated Ae wiki for stuff like this?

I remember spending some quality time in photoshop finding the right font with the right kerning, height and width modification of err i think it was helvetica to make home made quaristice era covers of some of their live sets and it would be a shame to let that knowledge go to waste.

 

someone did figure out a font that looked extremely similar to the one used for Quaristice, but it was determined that the on used on the actual artwork was a custom job

[jules]

I thought quaristice was either helvetica neue or univers.