Question for Nick S., or anyone else who may know: was the font/typeface used on the rear bumper created specially for the car, or did it exist prior to 1980?
and it if is in the book, I apologize as I haven't got that far yet.
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Question for Nick S., or anyone else who may know: was the font/typeface used on the rear bumper created specially for the car, or did it exist prior to 1980?
and it if is in the book, I apologize as I haven't got that far yet.
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Interesting. I thought I read somewhere that Giugiaro designed the font too...? Or is that tosh?
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Without getting into semantics, but I don't think there was ever a 'font' - a full set of letters - created by the company; just that logo. You can get the 'font' made by fans, but it's pretty clear that it doesn't really work for a lot of letters like T or whatever. The balance/white space of the other letters is all over the shop. I've never seen anything by the company that used those characters other than specifically to spell "DeLorean". I've never thought it worked well as a 'font'.
I've got a DeLorean Motor Company corporate identity book, and to be honest, I'm not entirely sure the DeLorean logo appears in that - just the DMC emblem and use of the Optima typeface for signs, cards, etc.
As far as I've ever been able to work out, that logo was extrapolated from the DMC logo. The DMC emblem existed as far back as Proto 1 (before that, the wood mockup carried the DSV logo), whereas the earliest appearance I saw of the "DeLorean" logo was in an article right around the time they refinished the wooden model's styling with the new shape that was going onto the pilot cars, which is about 3 years later.
I've never been a huge fan of the logo, actually - I love the emblem but was never a fan of the letters. It's a long way into the future but when I get a car I'll look into having the rear fascia done like the pilot cars with the bumper logo moulding removed.
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Several weeks ago, I saw online an article about the man who, among other things, designed the DMC emblem. He called it his one claim to fame. Unfortunately, I can't remember his name, and a search on Google News turns up no results. He didn't say anything about a "font." I think all he did was the "DMC" bit. I'll keep looking, though.
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Found it! His name was Phil Gibbon.
Paragraph 20 in this article.
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