(x) Mary had a little lamb - Caslon Antique, Chaucerian Initials {Mike Yanega}
ok Try your hand at this.
http://www.kylehildebrant.com/images/mag_scan_small.jpg
http://www.kylehildebrant.com/images/mag_scan_large.jpg
http://www.kylehildebrant.com/images/mag_scan_detail.jpg
Any ideas?
I would like to see how they went about "Stylizing" this to look as if it is letterpressed. It's hard to see fom the scan, but the original has just the slightest bit of debossing look to it.
Good stuff. BTW, this is an ad from REALSIMPLE magazine.
hildebrant.
26.Sep.2003 5.56pm
The typeface is Caslon Antique and I think the typeface is made to look as if it's been done on an old letterpress. I tried playing with Illustrator effects and the closest effect was one of the glow things. Photoshop probably has more ways to do it, and I stopped messing about when I felt I wasn't getting closer. The sample is straight Caslon Antique (no effects)
26.Sep.2003 8.01pm
Good call, how about that inital cap?
27.Sep.2003 7.54am
It looks like the M from the Initials done by William Morris. The first sample I found of this was a Japanese 'shareware' link, I'd rather not use. David Nalle of Scriptorium also has that design among his Ornate Initials, as you can see.
27.Sep.2003 8.06am
That sure looks like it would do it. Thanks Yves. (I've saved that for future reference.)
29.Sep.2003 3.54pm
The sample is indeed very similar to Caslon Antique, but it's noticeably different in several places, enough to make me suspect that it's actually a free knockoff of Caslon Antique. Sure enough, there's apparently a Corel font called "Casablanca Antique." The name makes absolutely no sense, and I don't have a PC so I can't check it, but I'd be willing to bet a dollar -- sight unseen -- that Casablanca Antique's your font, not Caslon Antique.
30.Sep.2003 6.02am
Chesh, I have Casablanca Antique (via CD8) and you are indeed correct. A perfect match.
But then so are, I believe, the FontHaus and Phil's Fonts versions.
30.Sep.2003 2.53pm
I disagree about the Fonthaus and Phil's Fonts versions, which, to me, look different even from each other.
And Yves, that's cool with me. You know Americans are more interested in the dollar than in being right. ;)
30.Sep.2003 4.38pm
I agree that all the versions of Caslon Antique we have seen have had some slight variations from one another. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there some variation within the sample we were given too? If I understood the 'distressed stamp' effect, it involves using some noise to disrupt some of the font outline, or else this sample is truly not made from a font. (Caslon Antique exists as a metal type, I believe.)
It seems unecessary to quibble about exactly which of the 'Caslon Antique' (by any other name it comes out to the same thing) versions could have been used. I think the person who asked the question was satisfied long ago. BTW, we have yet to see an actual sample of the one that is supposed to be the exact match, and the person who made that statement has been corrected about his opinion that the FontHaus and Phil's Fonts versions are identical too.
Can we just move on? I'm an American, and I'm interested in being right (as my wife can tell you), but I think we've answered the question we were asked.
Peace.
27.Sep.2003 7.58am
If you're looking for that "distressed stamp" effect
go to my mini-tutorial.
30.Sep.2003 6.10am
Chesh! You won a dollar! A whole dollar!
Chesh I hope you don't mind but the ID stays what it is,
as we're talking free knockoffs here. You okay with that?
But kudos anyway for your inquisitive mind and keen eye.
30.Sep.2003 5.44pm
I suggest we resort to nitpicking when the person who
originally posted the sample asks for it.
Congratulations to all involved for such a thorough job
and not going for the easy way out. I consider this
thread solved.