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Iron Maiden - Typography and Fonts

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Contents

• Introduction
• Metal Lord (The Iron Maiden Font)
• Iron Maiden (The Hollow Iron Maiden Font)
• Balmoral (Dance Of Death Font)

Introduction

Over the years, Iron Maiden have used various styles of typography (also commonly known as "Font faces") on their cover art and other materials. These faces vary from the common to the obscure, and some have even been immortalized into TTF (TrueType Font) form by enthusiasts. In this article, we will briefly cover some of the font styles Iron Maiden have used throughout their art, and in some cases how you can recreate common looks with the font. This information could be useful for anyone creating art or websites in the Iron Maiden community, as well as anyone who has a general interest in the creation of the Maiden cover & promotional art.

Metal Lord (The Iron Maiden Font)

The font the hallowed words "Iron Maiden" themselves are written in on all albums
Metal Lord can be commonly identified as the typestyle used within the Iron Maiden wording itself on all albums and singles produced by the band. It has become their hallmark, along with Eddie, and is commonly used in other situations. Grand Theft Auto 3 Vice City used this style of lettering for the numerous "V-Rock" signs that can be found around the cities, and also for the lettering on some posters they made for a ficticious band "Love Fist". The style is synonymous with metal music, and is widely recognizable.

The .ttf truetype font of this lettering, often found as metalord.ttf metallord.ttf and labelled "Metal Lord Heavy" was created by Ray Larabie , of Larabie Fonts in 1996. It is distributed under a free use licence, and can be downloaded from his site,Larabie Fonts, or alternatively here at Maiden World in the Iron Maiden Downloads section.

Iron Maiden (The Hollow Iron Maiden Font)

A hollow version of the Iron Maiden title typestyle

Balmoral (Dance of Death)

The Dance of Death album cover & title font
Balmoral is a font distributed by ITC (International Typeface Corporation) and can be purchased at the ITC fonts website. Some people have commented that it looks very similar to the typestyle used on the front of Piece of Mind, which is incorrect.

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