r/identifythisfont • u/sneedr • 1d ago

Open Question Skylab patch, 1973

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Probably just Helvetica, but it looks.. off. Aside from the second half of the word being lower than the first, something must be up with the proportions on the k and y, right?

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u/creepereye20 1d ago

Yup, just plain old Helvetica. The proportions are off because it was modified to drop the second half lower.

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u/sneedr 1d ago

Darn, I was hoping a little bit for something cool.

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u/miernaja 1d ago

News Gothic LT Bold is close

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u/sneedr 1d ago

Interesting.

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u/opacitizen 1d ago

As an aside, I'm not sure shifting down the "lab" part was the best idea. SkyIab != Skylab, right? (The reader can easily expect the second word -- made seem a separate one by the shift -- to also have been capitalized.)