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False Idol

False Idol

by Barnbrook Fonts
Individual Styles from $30.00
Complete family of 2 fonts: $48.00
False Idol Font Family was designed by Jonathan Barnbrook and published by Barnbrook Fonts. False Idol contains 2 styles and family package options.

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False Idol Family

2 fonts

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Per style:

$24.00

Pack of 2 styles:

$48.00

About False Idol Font Family


False Idol is based on bad rub-down lettering from 1970s pornographic magazines and home-made religious leaflets. The letterforms were intended to mimic a feeling of cheap glamour but just became seedy. Somehow an alluring beauty emerges from this mix of sleaze and chic...

Designers: Jonathan Barnbrook

Publisher: Barnbrook Fonts

Foundry: Barnbrook Fonts

Design Owner: Barnbrook Fonts

MyFonts debut: Aug 18, 2003

False Idol

About Barnbrook Fonts

The font foundry of designers Barnbrook and Jonathan Barnbrook, formerly known as Virusfonts. Creators of Emigre Fonts Exocet, Mason and Priori. Designers of David Bowie Record covers. Iconoclastic collaborators with Damien Hirst and Adbusters. Branders for major museums, locations and art biennales. The studio is based in London and continues to work on a wide variety of cultural and musical projects and museum exhibitions.

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