Is FontMarketplace Hastings an original font or a rip-off?

Renaissance Man
24.Feb.2008 3.28pm
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FontMarketplace is selling this font as Hastings. Is that the real name or is this a rip-off?



Florian Hardwig
25.Feb.2008 3.17am
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Hi Steve,
I don’t know. All I can contribute is that there’s Stiletto by URW++ (Designer: Ralph M. Unger) – that looks very similar. And then there’s Adieu by David Bergsland; also quite close. He claims that “Adieu is an old-fashioned display font traced and modified from a group of Victorian fonts.”

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Renaissance Man
25.Feb.2008 5.09am
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Wow, you are good, Florian. I couldn’t believe Hastings was an original. Thanks!


Florian Hardwig
25.Feb.2008 5.32am
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Don’t praise me, praise Kevin Woodward, the inventor of the mighty WhatTheFont online font recognition service! ;°)


Mike F
25.Feb.2008 9.11am
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Per URW: “Stiletto was designed for the URW++ FontForum.” & “Design date: 2006”

Right ... This appears in two predigital catalogs as Chevalier, with the 1980 VGC Typositor catalog marking it as a VGC original (but that was sometimes misleading).