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Can anyone help me identify the font used for the heading of the following poster?

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I would really appreciate it if you could go a step further and give me tips on how to create the retro effect of the text.

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It looks like Impact font to me judging by the long letters and somewhat condensed shapes. All they did was used a bevel or inside shadow effect and applied a warp or a text shape to the word. Check this link out and use show by its caps. http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/urw/impact/%7CImpact

Here's my quick rendition -- you can tell those letters match distinctively.

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Yup, it's Impact all right. It's possible that the deep crotch in the Y has been tidied up a bit. – e100 Mar 21 '11 at 12:28
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yes, because there's nothing worse than untidy Impact crotches. – Lauren Ipsum Mar 21 '11 at 20:17
The distortion is likely an 'envelope' filter (Adobe Illustrator has them). – DA01 Mar 21 '11 at 21:23
thank you. This is great. To clarify something, are those lines found inside the letters drawn or can they be created with a bevel? – Mohamad Mar 22 '11 at 22:47
Beveling would be the first thing I'd experiment with. Probably with a few tries you'll be able to get the same effect. I couldn't tell off-hand how to do that though as I haven't tried it yet. Good luck though! – Mike Mar 23 '11 at 4:54
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We get a lot of font identification questions, you should check out this link.

However, I ran the header through WhatTheFont and some close matches were:

Interstate Compressed UltraBlack

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Though, the R doesn't have the curve on the bottom...

Folio Bold Condensed

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Though, the font isn't as heavy...

I hope this helps.

As for the "retro" effect, I would duplicate the font layer, and change it to black, and drag it down a little bit (creating this sharp shadow). Then, I would use the pen tool to create those lines you see on top of the letters. It also looks like all the letters have a stroke around them, so I would add a black stroke too.

This technique should be nearly identical in both photoshop and GIMP.

EDIT Mike's post includes the correct font, which is Impact.

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+1 for providing sources and inline effect notes, but -1 for just giving the not-very-close matches from an automated identification tool. – e100 Mar 21 '11 at 12:26
Hey, when I ran the scan, that's what I got e100 :P – Johannes Mar 21 '11 at 16:01
Yes, but (1) the user could run it themselves with the same results, and I think should be encouraged to do so before asking the question here (2) WhatTheFont's results are very patchy, e.g they seem to rate general proportion and weight over shape of letterforms. Impact is a very common font; it comes with either Windows or Office and is pretty easy to spot (3) Another answer provides the 100% correct answer and is currently scored lower. – e100 Mar 21 '11 at 18:42
I up-voted Mike's answer. I agree that his is better. Though, to be fair I included in my answer how the retro effect could be achieved. But I agree, the impact font is easy to spot, and I should have figured that out, and that's my error. :] – Johannes Mar 21 '11 at 19:53
thank you for the effort and help. I appreciate that. I was not aware that there are font identification tools--now I am. – Mohamad Mar 22 '11 at 22:48

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