Where to buy tall Chyron font as in TV texts (Lower thirds)?

[sebastian2012a]

Hi,

Any idea where to buy a really simple, tall, ordinary chyron font that is suitable for Lower third texts (I don't want to squash a helvetica, or something like that)?

I'm also interested in similar fonts for movie credits.

I searched Adobe Fonts, and a few other places, but no luck so far...

Thank you in advance!

P.S. I tried posting this in the Illustrator forum, but perhaps this is more relevant...

[sebastian2012a]

Hi,

Any idea where to buy a really simple, tall, ordinary chyron font that is suitable for Lower third texts (I don't want to squash a helvetica, or something like that)?

I'm also interested in similar fonts for movie credits.

I searched Adobe Fonts, and a few other places, but no luck so far...

Thank you in advance!

P.S. I tried posting this in the Illustrator forum, but perhaps this is more relevant...

[Ann Bens]

Have you tried TypeKit?

[sebastian2012a]

"Have you tried TypeKit?"

Thank you, yes, but the closest was Abolition (which really isn't close).

So, it's kind of peculiar IMO -- I would assume that lots of people need something like that...

[Ann Bens]

There are a lot of fonts suited for lower thirds.

Agency FB font?

[Richard van den Boogaard]

Try and see if anything matches on fonts.google.com or Adobe Typekit

[sebastian2012a]

Thank you both -- I've tried Typekit and Google fonts without any luck.

I did see Agency FB, and I agree it's close, but not quite.

I actually look for TWO fonts; one should be a tall neutral Chyron; the other one should be a classic movie-poster / movie-credits font like this:

[sebastian2012a]

Regarding what I meant by a "squashed" Helvetica:

CNN, for instance, uses a regular Helvetica-style font for their Lower thirds, so they just make it taller in Illustrator (which imo doesn't look good). I'm looking for a 'natural born' tall font...

[sebastian2012a]

Thank you very much again, Ann Bens, I didn't know the Match font feature, so that's very helpful!

But the weird thing is that no fonts really look like the 'western' one (and I think that's weird because I would assume lots of film makers would find that useful).

Most tall fonts are unfortunately also skinny. I'd wish there were an 'Impact' kind of font, only taller.

I think I'll contact some of the font companies, but thank you again!

[Ann Bens]

Match font in Ps.

[Ann Bens]

https://www.dafontfree.net/freefonts-compacta-f65.htm

[sebastian2012a]

Thank you again, I'll take a look at dafontfree.net -- I have to admit I'm a bit cautious about free font sites, partly because of viruses/spyware, partly because of Licensing (I'd like a totally fool-proof commercial license like Adobe's).