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(x) The Caroline Penguin - Jellybean {Armando Bellmas}
Posted by fototunes in
4 Oct 2003 — 3:17am
4 Oct 2003 — 3:17am
Hello.
I need help identifying this font, please:
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Thanks.
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4 Oct 2003 — 3:19am
Oops. Bungled the formatting.
6 Oct 2003 — 5:20am
Very close (but off a bit on at least a couple of characters) is Miele.
The fact that this font contains no copyright info makes me suspicious, but it's been around as a freeware font for many years and I've not seen a typeface yet that Miele is a knockoff of.
One page I visited referred to Miele as a typeface seen "on those coffee places in Vienna". This means nothing to me (in the USA), but perhaps is a clue?
6 Oct 2003 — 11:48am
Thanks for the replies.
I contacted the designer of the graphic and she told me it's a font called Jellybean. Searches for a Jellybean font turned up a host of other fonts, but not the one above. The designer said she didn't remember where she got it or who made it, but that it's "an old one."
6 Oct 2003 — 12:11pm
Armando, do you need the actual font or could you get
by with a neighbor such as Trademarker from FontFont...?
http://www.fontfont.com/shop/
6 Oct 2003 — 5:06pm
Yeah, I needed the actual font. Fortunately, the designer helped me out with that.
Thanks for your help.
7 Oct 2003 — 7:55am
Thought I'd mention that the third hit on a Google search
for fonts and Jellybean yielded this, which appears to be
identical to Miele and suffers from the same differences
from the sample image: a centered middle crossbar on the E
and a too small counter in the P. The designer must have
done some modifying.
I know ... who cares ...
7 Oct 2003 — 8:18am
Wow! You're good, Mike.
But wait it minute, the website says that the font costs, US$2???
7 Oct 2003 — 9:00am
Oops. It was AB, the original poster who identified the font.
But you're still good.
7 Oct 2003 — 9:42am
That Buyfonts site seems a tad suspicious, but it's an
offshoot of Xara (the graphics programs company). The
$2 fonts are supposedly old Fontbank fonts that they
claim to be licensed to sell.
It was Mike Yanega (who deserves to be
called good ... no make that really good) who pointed
out the Fontbank connection.
8 Oct 2003 — 7:21am
For one more bit of trivia about 'Jellybean' from the FontBank collection. My notes say the true typeface this is based on is called 'Jumbo' designed by Gustav Jaeger for Berthold in 1978.
6 Oct 2003 — 1:33am
Armando, I'm terribly sorry: I know this face but
I can't remember what it is or where I've seen it.
I hope I can find it before too long.
8 Oct 2003 — 2:05am
> I know ... who cares ...
Some of us do, Mike, rest assured.
8 Oct 2003 — 7:37am
See, this is what I really like about this Board,
even more than the thrill of the hunt for the ID.
I learn. Almost every single day.
No sign of Jaeger's original Jumbo anywhere online,
unfortunately.