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(x) Serif text face and italic w/ swash caps in 1962 USGA book - Devinne, MT Baskerville {Patricia}
Posted by Eric Gordon in
13 Jan 2008 — 6:15pm
13 Jan 2008 — 6:15pm
From a book published in '62... I'm pretty sure the body is Century Expanded, but not 100%. I've never seen a swash version of Century for the header ("The Start of the USGA"). Is it a different face altogether? Thanks in advance.
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13 Jan 2008 — 6:25pm
I would have to agree with Century, But I'm sure about the top one!
13 Jan 2008 — 6:49pm
I wouldn't be surprised if some metal foundry produced a swash version of Century Italic and it's never been digitized.
13 Jan 2008 — 7:22pm
The header looks like Baskerville italic (monotype)
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/agfa/baskerville-mt/
I think the text font is DeVinne.
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/de-vinne/devinne-text/
13 Jan 2008 — 7:44pm
Well done, Patty.
13 Jan 2008 — 8:02pm
Excellent. I should've picked up the Baskerville header type—that swashy T should have given it away. (Hits head repeatedly on desk.)
I'd never heard of DeVinne, though. Century wasn't too far off, apparently:
This revival of the Bruce Foundry’s No. 11 is typical of the nineteenth century types derived from the work of Didot and Bodoni; the face remains popular with lawyers and government printers. In fact, Theodore Low De Vinne opposed this kind of design as hard to print and read; he had Century designed to replace it.
(From the MyFonts description.)
Thanks, Patty!