Intertype Vogue

Does anyone have an idea on where I can find a digitized version of the old “Vogue” sans serif typeface? It’s similar to Kabel.

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Actually Vogue is a modified version of Futura, but includes several alternate characters that would enable it ti also mimic Kabel and Tempo.

For an extensive description, see Mac McGrew’s American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century, which also includes a showing of all the alternate characters.

As close as I come to knowing about anything digital is the use of my own ten digits to handset type and happily dwell in my analog world.

Rick

In the other topic I pointed to a version that is the only one I could find…

http://www.abstractfonts.com/font/12605

It isn’t perfect, but it is all I could find.

Lord save us all. WTF is Am Sans, Regular??????????

Looks a whole lot like Futura. I am not near any reference materials so I’ll just shoot from the hip here.

What I read it McGrew’s book was that Vogue was pretty much Futura, but that the caps had been raised to the height if the ascenders. The ascenders and descenders were also a little more extended than normal Futura. There are ALSO alternate caps and alternate lowercase characters included in Vogue. A REAL digital version of Vogue would arm you with enough alternate characters to do a LOT creative typography.

This simply reinforces that I have made the right choice to stay analog using the 2,000+ fonts of handset type in my shop. I do not have Vogue because it was an Internet face and I do not have any linecasting machines.

The FIRST thing you need to do is get a proof of the complete original Vogue typeface and then start your search from there.

Rick

Lord save us all. WTF is Am Sans, Regular??????????

Looks a whole lot like Futura. I am not near any reference materials so I’ll just shoot from the hip here.

What I read it McGrew’s book was that Vogue was pretty much Futura, but that the caps had been raised to the height if the ascenders. The ascenders and descenders were also a little more extended than normal Futura. There are ALSO alternate caps and alternate lowercase characters included in Vogue. A REAL digital version of Vogue would arm you with enough alternate characters to do a LOT creative typography.

This simply reinforces that I have made the right choice to stay analog using the 2,000+ fonts of handset type in my shop. I do not have Vogue because it was an Internet face and I do not have any linecasting machines.

The FIRST thing you need to do is get a proof of the complete original Vogue typeface and then start your search from there.

Rick

Lord save us all. WTF is Am Sans, Regular??????????

Looks a whole lot like Futura. I am not near any reference materials so I’ll just shoot from the hip here.

What I read it McGrew’s book was that Vogue was pretty much Futura, but that the caps had been raised to the height if the ascenders. The ascenders and descenders were also a little more extended than normal Futura. There are ALSO alternate caps and alternate lowercase characters included in Vogue. A REAL digital version of Vogue would arm you with enough alternate characters to do a LOT creative typography.

This simply reinforces that I have made the right choice to stay analog using the 2,000+ fonts of handset type in my shop. I do not have Vogue because it was an Internet face and I do not have any linecasting machines.

The FIRST thing you need to do is get a proof of the complete original Vogue typeface and then start your search from there.

Rick

Rick, Intertype Vogue (as opposed to Stephenson Blake Vogue) was specifically mentioned here…

http://acknak.blogspot.com/2007/11/am-sans-digital-version-of-intertype....

As can be seen from the discussion Volker Busse was trying to create a Vogue like face. I have found a face with the same name but a different look.

I also found a reference to the fact that Vogue contained 8 alternate character sets, and an intertype specimen that shows both the Q with the diagonal tail and the Q with the vertical tail.

https://www.designspiration.net/save/2085912149327/

http://www.typophile.com/node/117320 is also worth looking at. Am sand by Volker Busse is mentioned in all of these. People do not appear to be saying it is Vogue, but that it is the closest that you are likely to find in digital format.

Personally I have nothing against digital fonts, but for letterpress work I like hand set type and cuts. I don’t use photopolymer myself, and I realise that you can do different (new) things with it, but while it has advantages it is not for me.

Z.

I’m tickled that a blog post I wrote 11 years ago still has some value. FWIW my original interest in Vogue was through a project to faithfully reprint some “Ask Swami” paper fortune slips - you know, the ones that get when you put a penny in a little napkin-holder machine - but other than AmSans I was unable to find an alternative. And sadly, 11 years later, I’ve been unable to find anyone who could make me some type.

The search continues.

BTW - I sent the high-resolution specimens I had to Volker, and managed to scare up a few other decent specimens over the years. Sadly, his Am Sans isn’t .. quite right. The descender on the Q (is that the right word for it?) is angled in AmSans whereas in the original font it is vertical.

Intertype Vogue_Digital
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/millertype/intervogue/

Intertype Vogue_Metal
www.theprintingmuseum.org.nz

VOGUE
8pt with bold 1683 (Intertype magazine)
8pt Extra bold with bold 2272 (Intertype magazine)
10pt with bold 1772 (Intertype magazine)
10pt Extra bold with bold 1838 (Intertype magazine)
10pt Oblique with bold oblique 1791 (Intertype magazine)
11pt Light with medium 2004 (Intertype magazine)
12pt Extra bold with bold 1981 (Linotype magazine)
12pt with bold 1910 (Intertype magazine)
12pt Extra bold with bold 1981 (Intertype magazine)
12pt Extra bold with oblique 1923 (Linotype magazine)
14pt Extra bold cond. with oblique 2300 (Intertype magazine)
18pt with bold 6-V (half Intertype magazine)
18pt Extra bold with bold oblique 24-V (half Intertype magazine)
18pt Extra bold cond. with bold cond. 20-V (half Intertype magazine)
18pt Bold with oblique 9-V (72 channel half Intertype magazine)
18pt Extra bold with bold oblique 11-V (half Intertype magazine)
18pt 6-V with 18pt Bodoni italic 13-B (Intertype magazine)
24pt Bold cond. with extra bold cond. 12-V (half Intertype magazine)
24pt bold oblique 3528 (72 channel half Intertype magazine)
24pt Extra bold with oblique V-11 (72 channel half-magazine)
24pt Bold cond. with cond. 18-V (half Intertype magazine)
30pt Extra bold 3485 (hand-set)
36pt Extra bold cond. L 2631 (72 channel half Linotype magazine)
36pt Extra bold 2489 (hand-set)