CD and Digipack Font Research

As I am responsible for the CD and digipack, I am doing some research into the fonts that can be used. The text we have on the CD cover is:

1. Front Cover - Band name and song name on the board.
2. Back Cover - Track listing on the board
3. Inside Cover or 4th Side - Possibly the lyrics to the song.

It is important we recreate the font that "The Futureheads" use when they display their name, in order to fit with the style and image of the band. Below is a screenshot of the band's website and a copy of 4 of their CD covers, that I made when looking at the bands image on a previous post.

As you can see, the band name is in a simple, black, block font. By clicking on the images, you can see, particularly on the website, that the font has a slightly worn and faded look. Therefore, I found this font on UrbanFonts.com, and thought it was a fairly close match. It is called "Dirty Headline".

I think this font would be appropriate for the website, but maybe not for elements of the CD cover. The font needs to be appropriate for the mug shot board that will be held up. This font will feature on not only the CD cover, but the website background image and in the video itself, when the character holds up the board, displaying four different lines of lyrics, as demonstrated on the following blog post.

I therefore have found a selection of fonts that I think would be appropriate ones to copy and recreate to go on the mug shot boards. The target font can be seen below in this example mug shot photograph. It is still a block sans-serif (without flicks) font but with thinner lettering.

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Here are the possible fonts, found from another font website DaFont.com:

Old Sans Black

Roadway

Go Long

Tratex

Of the four suitable fonts that I found, I think either Old Sans Black or Tratex would be the best, because the letters are not taller than they are wide, as in the above mug shot. However, if it is difficult to perfectly recreate these fonts, a block, sans serif font with thin lettering will fit with the conventions and image we are trying to create.

To make the 9 boards we need, we will probably print out the lettering but with black background and white text, and attach it to a black sheet of paper, which we then attach to a black chalkboard, so it is rigid, easier to hold, and more realistic to look at.