1977 - 1979 Seattle Mariners Logo font

[The Bend Garage]

Trying to identify the font used in the original Seattle Mariners logo from 1977 to 1979 - realizing that the trident M was a graphic creation but want to know what the font is for the other letters in the words Seattle and Mariners

[mshiremanNK]

Reminds me of a modified ITC Serif Gothic Black https://www.myfonts.com/products/std-black-serif-gothic-369796

[The Bend Garage]

Yes that ITC Serif Gothic is very close but the lower case e is different and my client likes that e in the Mariners logo - thanks for the reply, much appreciated

[mshiremanNK]

I think it's most likely hand modified (rotated) to get that effect in the logo 🙂

[The Bend Garage]

yes that is possible - I guess its also possible that the whole thing was created as a graphic

[mshiremanNK]

A little more research indicates that it is indeed ITC Serif Gothic, but that many of the alternate characters included in the original typeface were never digitized and included in any of the digital font versions (see right hand section of the image for the tilted "e"). 

 

[The Bend Garage]

Thanks for the help with this!  

[Gecko]

I did a serif gothic version years ago to include the alternative glyphs.

At the time I only did a bold version and not an extra bold.

In illustrator you need to invoke the "glyph" menu to view and use the alternatives. 

ITCSerifGothicAlternative-X.otf

[The Bend Garage]

thanks for the follow up...I was looking for that font for a friend who used it to create a logo for his softball team and they really liked that font used in the original Seattle Mariners logo m- I haven' t seen the final product yet, and he is an architect who thinks he is a graphic designer so we will see what happens!!

[The Bend Garage]

this is his first rough draft - yikes!!

 

[mshiremanNK]

I sincerely hope they know what a "merkin" is LOL

[The Bend Garage]

they are a crazy bunch!