Clarendon variant?

elzadra
9.Feb.2008 9.50am
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This Clarendon variant is all over the place lately, but I can’t pin it down. Please excuse metro phone-cam type shot.



Mike F
9.Feb.2008 9.58am
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Rosewood Fill. It’s not just lately ... it has been rather popular for two or three years now.


elzadra
9.Feb.2008 10.08am
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Fashions vary depending where you live. Thanks.


Mike F
9.Feb.2008 10.20am
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Very true, Kate ... and you are certainly welcome.


Florian Hardwig
9.Feb.2008 11.05am
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One could argue about whether it’s fashion or rather availability, as Rosewood comes bundled with Adobe software.
It really is a nice typeface, charmingly uneven.


Alexandre Bélanger
9.Feb.2008 11.23am
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Kate, this kind of typeface is used very often like Mike said, even in Montreal where you took that picture. It appeared just after the “circus types” like Zebrawood and Rosewood Regular back in 2001-2002.


Stephen Coles
9.Feb.2008 11.54am
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One of the reasons it’s uneven is that it’s meant to be the method for coloring the fill on Rosewood. Fascinating how popular it’s become. I guess it shows that there’s a demand for imperfect wood stuff.


elzadra
9.Feb.2008 12.59pm
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I feel like I’m meant to apologize for not noticing it earlier. My only excuse is that it’s now all over the metro with that accounting firm campaign, so it bubbled up through my subconscious on a few long trips on the Orange Line.


DanGayle
9.Feb.2008 5.18pm
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I always wanted a larger family of just the fill. Love that typeface!