What font is used for 'Lamborghini' on Countach rear ?

[nartsimpson]

Hi all. I'm trying to find out the name of the font used for the 'Lamborghini' script on the rear of the Countach (not the 'La Macchina' one - the plainer one as shown below). Can't find a reference anywhere.

Any help much appreciated. John (Nartsimpson)

[rich888]

Have you tried using this website https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

[orangeLP400]

As an ex- ad man I would think this is not a specific font ( but i don't know for sure) as back in the day for any brand name or logo we would have it hand done ( now days u would use photoshop) and most did this in ink or water colour or they took a font( from lettraset, bet no one remembers that) and played with it to the extent it was no longer recognisable. You would not take a font off the shelf for this sort of thing as then anyone could copy it and you had problems with copyrighting the logo, so it needed to be bespoke and unique.

[P300V8]

+1

[Behemoth]

Well, as an ex ad-man I'd say not necessarily. It entirely depends on the circumstances. It doesn't take much tweaking of a classic font to derive a distinctly unique typography. The Ferrari 308 is a case in point. It's clearly based on Microgramma which was ubiquitous in the early 70s (a version is freely available to amateurs in a decent interpretation called Eurostile).

For the Countach, all I see is decoratively overlapped kerning on a fairly standard italic bold neo-grotesque (probably Helvetica, Nimbus etc). I don't think it'd be too difficult to approximate.

[andrew]

the modern lamborghini font is "la macchina"

doesn't much help the op, but shows that some car fonts are readily available

[dinkel]

Whoever designed it?

[P5BNij]

dinkel said:

Whoever designed it?

Marcello Gandini perhaps..?