Dummies Font?

I am making a spoof "...for dummies" book cover for an office gag. Anyone
know the name of the title font?

Graham

 

Have a look at

http://www.typenow.net/themed.htm

Font no. 255

Terry D.

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Nice link - thanks

Martin

 

Wow. I'm always on the lookout for the more unusual font. Page bookmarked!
However - that wasn't it. Dummies books have two fonts, subject and title.
Its the other one I'm after (although that one did help), possibly should
have made myself a bit clearer. Is there an easy way to download all of them
from that site at once?

Graham

 

No ideas on the other font. I do however think that sales of this series of
books would increase if the word 'Dummies' was dropped. I wouldn't dream of
buying one and admitting that I'm a 'Dummie' (which I'm not !).

Terry D.

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Only a dummy would think to remove a word from a title of book series
that's sold more than a hundred million copies... BRAVO! Brilliant!
You'd remove the golden arches from McDonalds because they look vaguely
like a set of tits....wouldn't you?

 

"I do however think that sales of this series of books would increase if
the word 'Dummies' was dropped" !!!!

Luckily for them you arent in charge of their marketing campaign then !
thats presicely why they do so well, most other publishers would do anything
to get even 10% of the sales these guys make. !!!
The word Dummies is used and taken tongue in cheek.
Its a shame a lot of other publications dont adopt the same approach. The
people that buy their books want something that assumes they no diddely
about the subject, unlike a lot of other so called "beginner" books that say
"do this and then do that" assuming you already know what this or that is.

 

Bit droopy tho.

 

The font apears to be Myriad--the Italic version is used in the main header and subheaders and the nonitalic version is used in other places, like the narrative text on the back page. Look at the difference in the "a" and "e", for example, to see which is which.

(I got here searching for people who might have already done spoofs of the *guy* on the cover and have posted them online.)

-ellen

 

heres a handy site i use frequently: www.whatthefont.com - all you need to
do is upload a clear image of a number of letters in the required font, to
their specs, and it will search the database to come up with as many close
matches as it can

 

Oh, you mean like this one?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180063805073
Probably not. How about one of these Myriads then?
http://www.linotype.com/1257/myriad-family.html

You can even get a sample online of whatever you want it to say (hint, hint)!

 

Here are all fonts for "...FOR DUMMIES" books:

Cheltenham Bold, Book
Courier
DumFont2Reg
Frutiger BoldCn
IScript
IndyCode Obique, Regular, Bold
Myriad Bold, BoldItalic, Italic, Roman
Symbol
Universe Condensed, CondensedBold, CondensedBoldOblique, CondensedOblique
Universal NewswithCommPi
ZapfDingbats