Boards of Canada Boards of Canada Typography

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?

some modification of bauhaus, innit...

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

I always though Vibert's was better.

  On 10/3/2011 at 8:51 PM, oscillik said:

http://bocpages.org/wiki/Fonts

thanks.

AE fonts are better

and yes, scraping the barrel indeed

  On 10/4/2011 at 4:32 AM, YELLOW said:

and yes, scraping the barrel indeed

why?

  On 10/4/2011 at 5:16 AM, hayesj23 said:

  On 10/4/2011 at 4:32 AM, YELLOW said:

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?!

  On 10/4/2011 at 5:16 AM, hayesj23 said:

  On 10/4/2011 at 4:32 AM, YELLOW said:

and yes, scraping the barrel indeed

 

why?

Nobody likes BoC fans, not even BoC.

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.

  On 11/18/2011 at 2:16 PM, ZoeB said:

Geogaddi looks a bit like VAG Rounded

*childishly sniggers*

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

  On 11/18/2011 at 2:16 PM, ZoeB said:

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.

  On 11/18/2011 at 2:16 PM, ZoeB said:

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

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

  On 12/5/2011 at 10:30 PM, SoundPermutation said:

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...

yea it is upper and lower avant garde

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

  On 12/6/2011 at 8:36 PM, oscillik said:

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

The IDM font.

  On 12/6/2011 at 6:10 PM, Joyrex said:

  On 12/5/2011 at 10:30 PM, SoundPermutation said:

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.

  On 12/6/2011 at 9:39 PM, kaen said:

  On 12/6/2011 at 6:10 PM, Joyrex said:

  On 12/5/2011 at 10:30 PM, SoundPermutation said:

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.

  On 12/6/2011 at 8:57 PM, never the machine forever said:

  On 12/6/2011 at 8:36 PM, oscillik said:

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.

  On 12/9/2011 at 5:24 AM, phick123 said:

  On 12/6/2011 at 8:57 PM, never the machine forever said:

  On 12/6/2011 at 8:36 PM, oscillik said:

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

I thought quaristice was either helvetica neue or univers.