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I find myself reformatting a page of type specimen boilerplate based on a sheet of Akzidenz Grotesk for a design class. However, I know diddly squat about the origins of this page...perhaps its from an old Berthold book (judging from the body copy) or something? I'm looking for the official two-letter abbreviation for Cheltenham that would appear where the "Ak" is (upper-left corner).
Any help would be appreciated...thanks!

19 Feb 2008 — 8:46am
CH?
I don't know that there are two letter abbreviations for fonts, the way there are for countries and states.
19 Feb 2008 — 8:55am
My guess is that's just an index indicating the letters beginning the first font's name - like you'd see at the top of a dictionary page for easier thumbing-through ("cil - cla").
So if your Chelt is the first font on the page, I'd use Ch.
19 Feb 2008 — 9:48am
Eliason,
I think so too.
A.
19 Feb 2008 — 1:36pm
Cool. I didn't think anyone standardized that kind of thing. Thanks for taking on my silly question! Enrico