The fonts on the bus go round and round?

It's CUMTD week here in the Typography garden! I spent most of last weekend wandering around Champaign-Urbana taking pictures of text for a project in ART 223. After taking some pictures of the text on CUMTD signs and the buses, I decided to use these pictures to study the type that the CUMTD uses. I have a few different examples.

This particular type I couldn't identify with either identifont or what the font. The closest I could get was Etelka Wide Text Pro Bold Italic, but the lowercase m and a are all wrong. This is the type that's used on most all the current buses for identifying it as the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District.

Though, my husband brought it to my attention that this was not always the type for this. On the older buses, if you happen to spot one, there is a strange script font. My husband spied on earlier this week and managed to snap a picture with his iphone, so the quality isn't that great.

I tried to use What the Font on this one, but I came up goose-egg.

This type is used on most of the schedule signage and on the schedule books. According to What The Font, It appears to be Meta Book LF-Roman.

I'm not sure if this is the same as the type on the buses. I compare the images in Photoshop and it seems that they could be the same. Imagine my surprise when I ran this particular picture through What The Font and I managed to get a match! Handel Gothic Regular.

About the Usage:
It's used to provide route information and to identify the transit system's vehicles.

Where I saw it:
Well you can see CUMTD buses all over the area, but these pictures were taken mostly at the Lincoln Square Courthouse stop.

My favorite band

The Font:
According to What The Font, The font is closest to this one is Jean Splice Lorite.It's close in that it has a lot of the same letter shapes and strokes (as can be seen in the V) but it's not the same.  I find myself wondering if it were somehow specially designed for the band.

About the usage:
It's a fancy display type used for the band and album name.  Given that Evanescence is a sort of Goth Metal-ish band it is an appropriate type.  I think it's pretty, but it's not good for a lot of text.  From the album art that I have, it's been used on pretty much all of their studio albums.

Where I saw it:
I own 3 of their studio albums, (Fallen, Anywhere But Home (the one pictured) and The Open Door.) I was running out of ideas and cleaning up the office when I decided to go with this.  Maybe I'll do more musical artist typeface research, it's something that seems interesting to me.

Week 4 - Paul Rand

In the process of looking up images for a project in my ART 223 class, I came across a graphic designer named Paul Rand.  I found a few images that I thought were intreguing, but this one is one that stood out to me. 

The different letter designs and colors seem to emulate a sense of playfulness.  I believe that this is used as an advertisement for an IBM event of some kind.  I found this image in the ArtStor database.