The new Leica font

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Am I the only one who finds the new style of script on modern Leica gear (R8/R9, MP, last generation of lenses) very cool?

Any designer members here who can recognize the font used?
 
Hm, it looks close.. google search also suggested something called "eurostile" which is also quite close.. however the way e.g. '4' is written is wrong on both.

Another site suggests DIN font, doesn't look too far too?

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/fontfont/ff-din/regular/

I wouldn't be at all surprised if they had a font designed for them specifically.
 
Leica uses CorporateS for printed matter, Isonorm capitals on their lenses and cameras.

I´m a graphic designer.
 
Before Isonorm, Leica used to use a proprietary face called Leitz-Norm on all cameras and lenses, and I believe that's what the new Summarits will wear.
 
Isonorm heats me up in my inmost places. I love that typeface to bleeding death.

Isonorm, Helvetica Neue (full set), Futura (full set), ITC Garamond, and Century (not Century Gothic) are my desert island typefaces.
 
It wouldn't surprise me if it's proprietary - they've certainly gone that route in the past. Isonorm is similar, as are a few drafting and OCR typefaces - they may have had something commissioned specifically for their machines (laser engraved? CNC?)

Trying to find a typeface commercially designed for press, when that isn't the medium and rendering method of this one, seems like a needle-in-a-haystack proposition.

Desert island faces: Full sets of Helvetica Neue, Minion, Jenson, Triplex, Chalet
 
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i drew the numbers a while back for thumbs-up-what's-his-name, but never got around to vectorizing it. oh well...
 
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