Sabotage credits font?

April 13, 2008 10:22 PM

I'm trying to nail down the font used for the "credits" in the Beastie Boys' Sabotage video. Looks familiar, but I can't get it, and identifont and the like are no help.
posted by majcher to grab bag (8 comments total)

it might be nice if you posted a link to a screengrab of the credits rather than, you know, expect us to watch the whole video....
posted by forallmankind at 11:04 PM on April 13, 2008

You mean the angle-cornered font used for the character names? It's a bit weird, since they're perspective-distorted like that. The key has got to be the half-height uppercase É as it appears in Mike D's "Alosondro Alegré as The Chief" credit (at 2:05).

Also, it's one of the best videos ever, forallmankind. Watching it is a mitzvah.
posted by mumkin at 11:07 PM on April 13, 2008

A screengrab.
posted by bigmusic at 11:13 PM on April 13, 2008

Hell, it looks an awful awful lot like ITC Machine, but that has a decent É... it's a match for that ugly W in "Sir Steward Wallace," though. So, maybe just an art director's fancy for not having the accent protrude?
posted by mumkin at 11:23 PM on April 13, 2008

Looks like ITC Machine to me.
posted by O9scar at 11:23 PM on April 13, 2008

jinx
posted by mumkin at 11:25 PM on April 13, 2008

That's totally it. Thanks!
posted by majcher at 11:31 PM on April 13, 2008

robbed!
posted by mumkin at 9:26 AM on April 14, 2008