Deans Foods using Atari Font to market to our generation?

[StanJr]

Or is it just crazy coincidence!

Saw this in one of my stores yesterday and had to snap a pic! I recognized it instantly as the Atari 2600 font.

I am a nerd.

[+atari2600land]

Of course it's for us. We cultured people need cultured sour cream.

[Albert]

We should send them some Atari 2600 carts.

 

..Al

[yuppicide]

A special sour cream game.. sounds like a Johnson & Johnson type tie-in. Might be ultra rare. I love sour cream I'm in.

[Gregory DG]

I see the Atari ST font fairly regularly thesedays.

[ls650]

[SekOner]

All i have to say is.....

 

Yeah that's definitely the same font. good eye! I don't think i would have ever noticed that. If its meant to be subliminal advertisement for Retro Gamers, it sure as worked. The proof is in this post exists hahahahha :P

[SekOner]

 

 

Ahh man you beat me to post by 2 minutes. That means we were literally making that same label at the exact same time! Great minds think alike. It took me a little longer because i was looking for the perfect picture

[A.J. Franzman]

The font is a version of Bauhaus. The Bauhaus typeface family has been around since the 1920s. It isn't really Atari-specific at all, and if you keep looking for it, you'll find in lots of places.

[StanJr]

It isn't really Atari-specific at all,

 

I beg to differ. That font is forever burned into my memory as the "Atari 2600" font, therefore, relatively it is very Atari-specific for me! Hence this thread!

 

 

ls650, I'm curious that the Sour Cream game uses Paddle Controllers...! Care to divulge?

[Atari Joe]

stan junior what are you doing with all that sour cream?? you with sour cream is about the same as a terrorist with a barrel full of chemicals and a ryder truck.

[carmel_andrews]

We have a Deans foods over here, think it's a different company as they tend to specialise in Halal/Islamic foods

[Skylark68]

Maybe someone that develops packaging for Dean's Foods is into Atari. I think someone needs to contact them and give them props...

[DaveD]

The font is a version of Bauhaus. The Bauhaus typeface family has been around since the 1920s. It isn't really Atari-specific at all, and if you keep looking for it, you'll find in lots of places.

 

'zactly. It's actually quite a popular font. I've noticed in the last few years it has made a bit of a comeback, but so has everything 70's.

[S1500]

IIRC Triumph also used that same font to advertise the TR-7 model. They also had Alan Alda, the poster child for "Average guy in America" advertise the TR-6, who also did Atari 8-bit computers.

[Vic George 2K3]

EECH...keep the Ren picture out of it, please!

[RJ]

I thought the font was called hammerfat. I work for the USPS & I see it ALL the time.

[A.J. Franzman]

Hammer Fat is very similar to Bauhaus. The word ATARI in the "fuji" logo is Hammer Fat, as is the text on the first Atari text-label carts. Later production changed the font on the text labels to Bauhaus. Only a few letters are noticeably different, such as "e" and "y". The console bezel text also changed.

[jeremysart]

Lol, thats funny because I was at the dollar store the other day and noticed a bottle of body was with the computerized looking Intellivision font, it was even in green lettering. I almost got it just for that reason. I'll try to get a picture if I csan some time.

[Ranthulfr]

A special sour cream game.. sounds like a Johnson & Johnson type tie-in. Might be ultra rare. I love sour cream I'm in.

Yes, in "Cultured Sour Cream" you are a bacteria culture that must convert regular cream into the soured variety. The follow-up game, "Low Fat Yogurt", was unreleased due to the crash of '83.

[tetrode kink]

EECH...keep the Ren picture out of it, please!

Eh, that's not Ren. That's some bastard's version of the Taco Bell Chihuahua.

 

Since you're obviously not a "Ren & Stimpy" fan, I'll forgive you that insult to Ren.

 

Once.

 

 

-tet