A reader came to the website recently, looking for information — according to the search string Google passed — on “Coldplay Fonts.”
Coldplay uses Albertus MT for their logo typeface. COLDPLAY. See? (Assuming, of course, that you have Albertus MT installed on your machine. As I do.)
No, I don’t have a font problem. I can quit them any time. 😉
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A writer, editor, journalist, sometimes coder, occasional historian, and all-around scholar, Allyn Gibson is the writer for Diamond Comic Distributors' monthly PREVIEWS catalog, used by comic book shops and throughout the comics industry, and the editor for its monthly order forms. In his over ten years in the industry, Allyn has interviewed comics creators and pop culture celebrities, covered conventions, analyzed industry revenue trends, and written copy for comics, toys, and other pop culture merchandise. Allyn is also known for his short fiction (including the Star Trek story "Make-Believe,"the Doctor Who short story "The Spindle of Necessity," and the ReDeus story "The Ginger Kid"). Allyn has been blogging regularly with WordPress since 2004.
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I finally found the *perfect* barcode font for my :CueCat but I cannot find the correct Firefly font. I want to strangle every sci-fi punk that tells me it’s Nuptial. The “F” isn’t even right!
That’s the thing — a lot of television shows start out using a standard font, and then the art department mangles and modifies it to work as they’d like.
A friend of mine approached me a few days ago asking if I could eyeball two fonts and tell him what they were, because he wanted to make some DVD cases and he wanted a font that was similar, if not outright exact, to what had been done on official releases.
Well, with some manipulation, he got one of the fonts I suggested pretty damn close.
Fonts. Aren’t they fun? 🙂
No, Coldplay actually use Copperplate Gothic Bold. Find it in Microsoft Word, I know I’m right.
Oh, Elinor, I so wish you right. 🙁
Here’s an article from 2005 that names Albertus as the font that Coldplay used for their title font on X&Y. They also used it on A Rush of Blood, Parachutes, and The Blue Room.
For what it’s worth, I hadn’t seen this article until today. I’d made the identification of Albertus by sight, which is either cool or nerdy. 😆
I’m not asking you personally, Allyn, but would it be possible to make a font that looked like the words “VIVA LA VIDA” on the album cover of the same? It is written with hasty paint brush strokes, but I thought maybe there could be a font like that…
From what I understand, Steven, it’s not an actual font. It was hand-brushed onto the artwork.
However, the brushwork is apparently rather close to a font called “Levi Brush” which you can find here.
Thank you very much sir. I knew it was handbrushed, but I didn’t know if there were fonts like it. Now I do. 🙂
I’d like to know which is the font used in X&Y booklet, in the orange page. It’s used for the credits on the booklet…