It appears that the designer dragged the stems of a regular Garamond.

More grungy is garamouche from P22

www.p22.com/products/garamouche.html

hmmm...Do you think that this is a custom font then? I've seen it in other ads before.

That was me that posted it. I couldn't scan the ad that I originally saw it in, so I tried to unsuccessfully recreate it. I saw this magazine with the same typeface and posted it instead.

actually snoopy, it probably is a free font.

www.dafont.com maybe

But if you have a version of Garamond, you could
ask someone who has Fontographer or FontLab
to customize it...under the terms of the license.

bj

I couldn't find in at dafont. Anyone recognize it?

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Do you ever have the urge...no more like the need, to identify a font you've never seen before?

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That, I'd say, is pretty much the affliction everyone in this forum suffers from.

Oh come on, BJ pretty much nailed this one. The typeface in question is Adobe Garamond (that's why it looks familiar) -- tortured on the rack.

Here, see for yourself:



I just made this up quick-and-dirty.

If you're seeing this in several places in the exact same form, then I would guess that the different magazines are all part of the same publishing conglomerate or employ the same agency. If this is available as a free font, then someone has been serously violating some licenses.

-- K.

I checked all the usual scrapbooking websites with no luck. The ad in the MyFonts query is from Hero Arts a rubber stamping company. Interestingly, they sell a set of rubber stamps based on this font. I originally thought this was a in house job, but then I spotted it on the cover of the magazine.

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If this is available as a free font, then someone has been serously violating some licenses.

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I'm sorry to ask what may seem like a stupid question to most of you, but does this mean that if it were a commercial font, it wouldn't violate any licenses?

>I'm sorry to ask what may seem like a stupid
question to most of you, but does this mean that if it
were a commercial font, it wouldn't violate any licenses?

No. If it wasn't being distributed at all, *then* it probably
wouldn't violate any licenses. (Adobe has a generous
EULA regarding derivatives.)

If it was a commercial font, then it would still probably
be a violation, unless the creator got proper permissions
from Adobe. (Of course, this could be true of a freely
distributed font, but I highly doubt it.)

This all assumes that the font in question was derived
directly from the original Adobe Garamond outline data.
Which I suspect.

If it was merely scanned and then autotraced and then
tortured, then there's probably little legal grounds, but
that doesn't make it right, imo.

>Clod Garamond

:->

-- K.

Sorry, Snoop, but as it already is the second time you
post this ID request and it hasn't been recognized yet,
I fear you'll need a stroke of luck or a chance meeting
to get this identified. :/