Comments on: Black Flag Font

Question: Black Flag Font

backOfYourMind — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 05:37:38 -0800

I'm trying to track down a copy of the font used on the Black Flag album covers. I've seen this question asked on a few forums, but no answers.

Freeware would be ideal, but I'd consider buying a copy.

By: taz

taz — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 09:55:59 -0800

That would be Optima.

By: oh posey

oh posey — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 10:20:07 -0800

Black Flag used various TT fonts to spell out their name and album titles. The only variance were the four Chuck Dukowski logo bars found on every Black Flag album.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 10:20:08 -0800

yup

By: keswick

keswick — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 10:26:54 -0800

I meant to post this on the other "Name That Font" question, but I couldn't be bothered to find the link at the time.

WhatTheFont
summary: scan a font, upload it, and it'll try to ID it. i've heard it works pretty well.

By: electro

electro — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 12:34:47 -0800

Check out Identifont. It's an expert system that asks you questions about how the letters look. It works best if you have all the letters, but you can always choose "don't know" if you don't have the letter in question.

By: signal

signal — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 14:51:40 -0800

What the font works quite well, actually. I've used it many times.

By: backOfYourMind

backOfYourMind — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 18:18:20 -0800

oh posey - You're quite right, but Optima is the name of the font I was after, and I had it all along!

Thanks all.

By: danOstuporStar

danOstuporStar — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 09:33:44 -0800

what's up with the bars anyway? anybody know the meaning behind the logo?

(actually, somewhat on subject: what, if any, is the relationship between this husker du logo (crappy image, sorry) and this psychic tv logo? (something i've always wondered about, pardon me if i've crossed some AskMe etiquette line.)

By: InfidelZombie

InfidelZombie — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 10:11:10 -0800

what's up with the bars anyway? anybody know the meaning behind the logo?

I think its supposed to be a stylized black flag

By: Witty

Witty — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 15:15:29 -0800

font resource (although not exactly helpful for this particular question):

Acid Fonts

By: backOfYourMind

backOfYourMind — Mon, 09 Feb 2004 04:30:44 -0800

Just as an update, I was wrong about the font being Optima - but thanks Amberglow, it was very close.
I scanned an album cover and let WhatTheFont have a crack at it. Although it was a bit tricky because the 'LA' in Black and Flag are both joined together, WTF was able to suss out that I wanted ITC Friz Quadrata Bold.

Good call, keswick.